Railway Via the Tweed. Statement by the Premier
Mr. Holman, the Premier, replying to the toast of the Minister and Parliament at Grafton on Wednesday night, said the Government had been sponding…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1914
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Father Kills Child. Run Over By Motor Car. (By Telegraph.) Sydney
Mr. W.R. Glasson, the owner of Brigalow Station, near Orange was driving his motor ear to the door of the homestead preparatory to going for a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Over a Precipice. Motorists' Remarkable Escape
The motor car owned by Mr J. Le Petit, which went over the precipice near Bollbrook on Saturday,: was raised by a bullock team and brought to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Thief Caught. Pursuit in a Motors Car
Entering the house of Mr. G. F. Bridgland, at South Yarra, Melbourne, on Saturday afternoon, a man was surprised in the act of ransacking the rooms. He made…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cape to Cairo by Motor. Broken Shaft: Negotiating Drifts. Water Famine
The special correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph," writing from Broken Hill, South Africa, on Jan 9, says:- We left Kafue about midday on Dec. 31…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Invisible Aeroplane. Notable Invention. Berlin, May 11
An, engineer at Munster, named Knobel, has invented an aeroplane which is almost invisible at a height of 3000 feet, owing to the wings being made of transparent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sensational Flying. First Hydro-aeroplane in Australia. M. Guillaux Again. (Herald)
In his novel, "The Invisible Man. H.G. Wells makes the action center around a man who had lost his body but retained all his nervous…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at Central Railway Station
At 1.20 o'clock this morning a fire was discovered in a lamp-locker in the telephone tunnel, beneath the assembly platfoem at the Central Railway Station. The fire brigade…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Delayed Railway Enterprise
The people living within the largest gap between Kendall and Grafton, the terminal of the two north coast railways, are becoming impatient of the delays in the construction…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Railway Mishap
A serious railway accident, resuiting in the death of one mand and inquiry to five others occurred this morning at Bong Bong Bridge between Bowral and Moss Vale. It…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Eyesight Tests. New Railway Bill Promised
A depatation broin the railway service waited an the Assistant Minister for Railways, Mr. Hoyle, on Saturday, with a request that thte eyesight test for engine-drivers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Matters
Mr. Claude Thompson, Secretary of the Amalgamated Railway and Tramway Service Association, informs us that the association has resolved upon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fell Out of Carriage Unaccustomed to Train Travelling. (By Telegraph.) Sydney
An inquest was held to-day concerning the death of Wilhelmna Little, aged 65, a single woman, who was found lying on the railway line at Newtown…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rival Railway Routes. Inverell-glen Innes Preferred
The Public Works Committee heard further evidence on Wednesday as to the expediency of constructing a line of railway from Glen Innes to Inverell. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Aerial Railway. 300 Miles an Hour
London, Tuesday Morning.—A number of electrical engineers and financiers made an inspection yesterday of Bachelet's model of an aerial railway at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An Extra Train for Dungog
Mr H. Burrows, manager of the Farmers' and-Dairymen's Milk and Ice 'Co., informs us that three months ago be brought under the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Remarkable Economy of Road Machinery
The engineer for Gostwyek shire (Mr. W. J. Thompson) submitted some remarkable figures at Wednesday's meeting of his council [?]pent the economy of engine work on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mail Train Derailed. North Coast Line. Passengers Inconvenienced
Traffic on the North Coast railway was disorganised this morning in consequence of a department to the Taree mall, which was timed to reach Maitland a few minutes…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Latest News by Wire. Sydney, Friday afternoon. Killed by a Train
A man, whose name is supposed to be William Arthur, relieving lighthouse-keeper, was found dead on the railway line near Sydenham station, early this morning. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatal Motor Smash. Melbourne
Mr. Elliott S. Shannon, member of a firm of Geelong shipping and stock merchants, was killed as the result of a motor accident near Terang. Mr. Shannon, who was only…
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