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Railways, roads & transport, 1907

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Italian Nobility. Shocking Motor Accident London, June 22

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 June 1907 · page 42

A dreadful motor accident, by which the jives of four, well-known members of the Italian nobility have been sacrificed, is reported to-day. The Prince of Pescara was…

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Pekin-paris Motor Race. Privations of Competitors

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 2 July 1907 · page 2

A French tri-car, which was entered for the Pekin to Paris motor race, has been abandoned in the Great Gobi Desert owing to the exhaustion of the petrol…

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Cable Sporting News. London, Monday. a Motoring Record

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 2 July 1907 · page 2

Mr. W. F. Edge, the well-known automobilist, has established a record for a long-distance track run. He succeeded in driving a 60 H.P. car (Napier), 1581 miles…

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Cheap Railway Fares

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 2 July 1907 · page 3

The new Chief Commissioner, Mr. T. R. Johnson has gazetted the reduced railway fares, and amended by-laws, etc., to come into…

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A Runaway Motor Trolly

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 2 July 1907 · page 3

The motor trolly used by gangers on the Wahgunyah railway line "bolted" from Wahgunyah about noon on Friday, and dashing past the…

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Crushed by a Train

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 3 July 1907 · page 5

Additional evidence was taken, to-day at the Morgue by the City Coroner in connection with the death of John Connelly, who was crushed between the…

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Proposed Opening of Roads. Land District of Corowa

The Corowa Chronicle · Wednesday 3 July 1907 · page 5

Deseription of reads to be opened Road from a road from Jerilderie to Corowa towards Oaklands being part of the Oaklands Savernake…

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An Awful Train Ride Clergyman's Thrilling Ex-perience

The Corowa Chronicle · Wednesday 3 July 1907 · page 4

The Rev. J. T. Baglin, incumbent of St. Johns Church of England, Footscray, late on Sunday evening experienced a most…

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A Bolt on the Railway

The Corowa Chronicle · Wednesday 3 July 1907 · page 4

It is not often that a bolt on the permanent way of our railway system is recorded, but such happened on the Springhurst Waliguiiyah line…

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Darling Robbery at Yarrawonga. Railway Cleaner Bailed Up

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 3 July 1907 · page 2

A daring robbery was perpetrated at the engine-sheds at Yarrawonga yesterday morning when William Cherry, a young man employed as cleaner, was…

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Charge Against a Tram Driver

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 3 July 1907 · page 5

The case of Francis Lloyd, tramdriver, charged with causing with death of John Foster, who was killed in a tram accident. Lloyd being in…

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Sporting. Peking to Paris Motor Race

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 4 July 1907 · page 4

The Italian representative in the peking to Parts motor-car race, Prince Borghese, has arrived at Irhutsk, in Southern Siberia, the second stage in…

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Cablegrams. Imperial Politics. Increased Liquor Duties Foreshadowed. Motor Car Licenses. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 4 July 1907 · page 2

In the House of Commons last night Mr. H. H. Asquith, Chancellor of the Exchequer, made a statement as to the intentions of the Government in regard…

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N.s.w. Railway Fares

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 4 July 1907 · page 3

The scale of passenger rates on the railways, which came into operation on July 1. is in the direction of locking the single ticket much nearer the basis…

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Railway Fatality

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 4 July 1907 · page 3

The City Coroner to-day delivered his verdict in the case of John Connelly, who was killed at Flinders-street station on 20th. ult. The finding was…

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A Tram Accident

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 4 July 1907 · page 3

A verdict of accidental death was returned at the inquest to-day into the death of a man named John Carroll, who was run over by a tram at the Glebe on…

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Land Notes. Proposed Opening of Roads

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 5 July 1907 · page 6

Land District of Corowa:—Description of roads to be opened. Road from a road from Jecilderie to Corowa, towards Oaklands,…

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An Awful Train Ride. Clergyman's Thrilling Experience

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 July 1907 · page 31

The Rev. J. T. Baglin, incumbent of St. John's Church of England, Footscray (Vic.), late on Sunday evening experienced a most miraculous escape from a terrible death. The…

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New South Wales Sydney, Thursday. a Railway Wanted

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 5 July 1907 · page 3

A numerously attended deputation, representing the commercial and pro­ducing interests ol the country, lying between Moiree and Mungindi, on the…

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Killed by a Tram

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 5 July 1907 · page 2

Mr John Lynch. 60 years of age, a resident at 5S High-street. St. Eilda, was knocked down by a tram-car at the Junction, St. Kilda, this morning…

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