Russian Battalion Analhilated. While Crossing a Bridge. London
The correspondent of the "Standard" attached to the army of General Kuroki says that a Russian battalion, was almost annihilated while returning…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1904
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Fatal Railway Aocident. Man Half Cut in Two
A fatal accident occurred at midnight on Wednesday as the last train for Brighton was leaving the Flinders-street station, Melbourne. A late passenger ran to catch the train aftor it was in-motion, and, falling to the lino, was run over. A quarter of the train had passed over his body before the engine could be stopped. The man was lifted from tho rails, and taken to the Melbourne Hospital, where he was found to be dead. His body was almost cut in two aoross the hips…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →Smallest Electric Motor
The smallest electric motor in the world has been built by a watchmaker whose work has trained him to handle delicate machinery with the exquisite care required in making a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cable News. (Continued from page 27.) Duke of Connaught. Motor Car Wrecked. London, October 14
Field-Marshal the Duke of Connaught, Inspector-General of the British Army, has had a sensational experience while driving in a motor car, near Edinburgh, from the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Breaking and Entering Jerilderie Railway Station
Terence McDonald was charged with breaking and entering the Jerilderie railway station on 6th April, 1902, and stealing therefrom £40 8s 3d, the property of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The To[?]umwal Railway
The chairman of the Victorian Parliamentary Railways Standing Committee presented to the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday the committee's report on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Border Trade at Tocumwal. Report on the Railway Proposal. Strathmerton Connection Recommended
The chairman of the Parliamentary Railways Standing Committee presented to the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday the committee’s report on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Bridge Captured. Important Japanese Success
Advices have reached Chifu that the Japanese have at last captured the railway bridge, together is within 500…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bad State of the Roads
The slowness of the Japanese movements and their failure to cut off the retreat of the Russians after the battle of the Shaho, is said to have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Trans-siberian Railway
The Czar has issued a decree ordering the duplication of the Trans-Siberian railway line…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tram Accidents in the City
As a result of tram accidents, no fewer than four persons were treated at the hospitals' yesterday. None of the accidents, however, proved to be of a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney Tramway Band. an Open-air Concert
The members of the Sydney Tramway Band, who are on their way to take part in the band contests at Ballarat during the present week, numbering,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Electric Lighting in Railway Carriages Thursday, October 27, 1904
The New South wales railway officials, in experimenting with the electric lighting of railway carriages, are many years behind the times. Eight years…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Barellan Railway
"It appears to me that the work is a most justifiable one, and should be proceeded with," said the Minister for Works to a deputation which urged him to proceed with the…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Tocumwal-Strathmerton Railway. Victorian Committee's Report
The Railways Standing Committees report on the proposal to connect Tocumwal by means of a railway with the existing Victorian Railway system, was laid before…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Tocumwal Railway
At a public meeting held at Yarrowayah on Saturday it was decided to petition the Minister following terms :--We, the undersigned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Traveller. Railway. From Jaffa to Jerusalem
THERE is one country which stands, and must ever stand, pre-eminent among all Christian nations and in all Christian communities. That is Palestine…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Science and Invention. Fly-wheels for Motors
FLYWHEELS connected to motors are employed in a number of electrically driven rolling mills in Germany for the protection of the motor and equalising the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Working the Yental Minis. Railway Gauge Altered
The Japanese have altered the gauge of the branch railway leading to the Yentel coal mines, and are now enabled to obtain sufficient coal for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Freights and Shows
Last week the Chief Commissioner of Railways informed a deputation from the pastoral and agricultural societies that no reductions in rates…
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