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Railways, roads & transport, 1905

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Wahgunyah-springhurst Train. an Increased Service

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 21 February 1905 · page 4

Wahgunyah to Springhurst. Daily.--Dep. Wahgunyah 7.30 a.m., Rutherglen 8 a.m., arr. Springhurst 8.30 a.m. Dep. wahgunyah, 2.55 p.m.,…

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CYCLING. The Motor Car Contest, First Day's Racing. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 22 February 1905 · page 4

The Dunlop Reliability Motor Contest from Sydney to Melbourne was commented to-day in perfect weather, The stage was as far as Goulburn…

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SPORTING. The Motor Car Contest. Albury Reached This Afternoon

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 23 February 1905 · page 4

This event has drawn a very fine entry of 27 cars, and 15 motor cycles the greatest number of whom have nominated from Victoria. The N.S.W…

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General War News. LONDON, Wednesday. Trans-siberian Railway Blocked

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 23 February 1905 · page 2

Advices from Berlin state the Trans-Siherian Railway is interrupted in four different places, and that there is an [?] congestion of war supplies…

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Responsibility for Roads

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 February 1905 · page 29

In the. case of M'Koon v. Miller, which was before the Full Court on a motion by plaintiff to set aside a nonsuit, an important point was discussed as to the…

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Road Metal

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 24 February 1905 · page 2

The Municipal Council recently purchased a vast quantity of metal from the Deep Lead Mine for road purposes and it is being stacked at present on…

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Buggy Run Into by a Train

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 February 1905 · page 25

A shocking accident happened at the railway crossing at Nar-Nar-Goon on Sunday afternoon. Mr. John Dore and his wife, Mr a. Catherine Dore, two old and…

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Railway Rates

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 February 1905 · page 28

Mr. Tait, Chairman of the Railway Commissioners, made tho following statement on the subject of the settlement of competitive railway rates:—"At a general conference of the Commissioners of State…

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Attack on the Railway. London, February 20

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 February 1905 · page 27

A brisk engagement in Manchuria is reported by General Kuropatkin. A force of Japanese and Chunchuses made an attack on the railway bridge,…

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UNTON y. RAILWAY

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 February 1905 · page 19

In this match on oh side played without a full team. The Railway won by an innings and two runs. The Union only made 10 in their first innings and 68 in the second; whilst the…

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General War News. LONDON, Thursday. Chinese Territory Violated. Russians Damage a Railway

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 24 February 1905 · page 2

Three hundred Russians have raided and slightly damaged the railway between [?]aicheng and Tashichlao, thereby violating Chinese territory west of…

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Motor Omnibuses

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 24 February 1905 · page 3

Milnes-Oulmler motor omutbuses are punning in England as follows:-Great Western Railway, 33; Great Eastern, 3; Great North of Scotland…

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Railway Strike at Warsaw

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 24 February 1905 · page 2

The strike of railway employes at Warsaw, the capital of Poland, has out a stop to all the traffic to and from the city…

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Inter-state Railway Rates, the Victorian and New South Wales Agreement

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 25 February 1905 · page 2

In conformity with the agreement arrived at between the Railway Commissioners of Victoria and New South Wales, the repeat of the differential…

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Reliability Ride. The Motor Car Contest Albury to Euroa

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 25 February 1905 · page 4

Yesterday morning all the competitors who had reached Albury on Thursday evening duly faced the mark for a start for Euroa, but a number of…

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A New Motor-car

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 25 February 1905 · page 2

A -motor-car has recently; been shown in London which seems to be a distinct advance-upon many of the vehicles of this sort which have previously been seen,…

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Widespread Railway Strikes. All Traffic Suspended

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 27 February 1905 · page 2

Widespread railway strikes are now general at Lodz, Saratoff, and other districts, and all traffic has been suspended…

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Blowing up the Railway. Two Contradictory Reports. the Japanese Account. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 27 February 1905 · page 2

The Japanese state that Cossacks, or a band of Chinese brigands in the pay of Russia, have tried to wreck the railway bridge at Haicheng, but have…

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Alteration of Railway Rates. Wool Rates Increased

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 27 February 1905 · page 2

Thursday's Government "Gazette" contains a new scale of railway chargers, which abolish the border war of freights, and which are the outcome of…

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Grant for Daysdale--oak-lands Road

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 28 February 1905 · page 2

Mr. R. T. Ball, M.L.A., has forwarded the following letter from the Under-Secretary, Public Works Deportment, in reference to the above:--…

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