The Victorian Railways. Proposed Reduction of Staff. a Thousand Men Affected. Melbourne
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 15 June 1908 · page 2
"I hear," sold the Premier this afternoon, just Delora leaving for Kerang, "that it is proposed to put off 1000 men at the railways at the end of the month…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Unuscal Delay of Mail Train
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 16 June 1908 · page 2
The passengers who travelled by yesterday's mail train from Melbourne to Albury were considerably anueyed at being delayed for upwards, of a quarter of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Closer Settlement. Resumption Notices. Large Areas of Brookong and Other Estates. [?] Acres to Be Resumed. Alongside Proposed Railway to Clear Hills
The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 16 June 1908 · page 3
In the "Government' Gazette" of 3rd. inst, there appears proclamations under the Closer Settlement Act, and in connection with the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wakool Bridge
Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 17 June 1908 · page 2
THE public had an illustration afforded them last week by the mishap to the punt at the Wakool, of the desirability of having this crossing spanned by an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Automatic'train Stop
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 17 June 1908 · page 2
A demonstration of the working of a device for automatically stopping trains when passing signals at dangr the invention of Mr. James Kriss, of Gundagni) was given…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Murderers. Exemplary Punishment in Washington. London
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 17 June 1908 · page 2
Recently a motor car, owned and driven by clay Stratton, a wealthy lumborian of Seattle, in Washington Territory, while treaveling at a very fast rate, ran over and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New South Wales. Sydney, Wednesday. Murrurundi Railway Smash. Officials Committed for Trial
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 18 June 1908 · page 3
The railway night officer, Dwyer, and the shunter Gibson, who were arrested last week in connection with the railway accident at Murrurundi on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →British Roads. Who Is to Pay for Them? a Home Question
The Riverine Grazier · Friday 19 June 1908 · page 5
One has long recognised, writes the "Dally Mall," that the state of mind of the merry party inside the motor-car and of the spectators by the roadside is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Roads. Who Is to Pay for Them. a Home Question
Tocumwal Guardian and Finley Free Press · Friday 19 June 1908 · page 6
One has long recognised, writes the "Daily Mail," that the state of mind of the merry party inside the motor-car and of the spectators by the roadside is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Victorian Railway Reductions. a Thousand Men to Go
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 June 1908 · page 31
The Premier of Victoria has learned Hint it is proposed to reduce the staff of the railways by 1000 men. When he was asked whether the Railway Commissioners had informed…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Practical Points for Motorists
Tocumwal Guardian and Finley Free Press · Friday 19 June 1908 · page 6
Also in Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser, The Riverine Grazier
Long, heavy springs are better, than short light ones. Don't make a practice of exlutchslipping. Some clutches will stand it,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Accident to Mr. John Burns. the Minister and the Motors. London
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 20 June 1908 · page 2
Mr. John Burns, member for Battersea and President of the Local Government Board, some days age tried to release a man who was jammed between two motor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Daring Leap From a Train While Travelling Forty Miles an Hour. to Escape the Ticket Collector Melbourne
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 22 June 1908 · page 3
A leap from a train which was travelling at a speed of between thirty and forty miles an hour, apparently without sustaining serious injury, was the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →English Railway Combination to Control Four Hundred Millions Sterling. London
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 23 June 1908 · page 2
Rumors are current that the Midland,Midland,London and North-western, and Laneashire and Yorkshire Railway Companies have agreed upon a scheme…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New South Wales. Sydney, Tuesday. Action Against the Railway Commissioners. for a Bursting Tram Boiler. Verdict for £172
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 24 June 1908 · page 5
An action was concluded before Mr. Justice Pring and a jury this morning, in which Esther Barclay, the widow of Albert Murdock Barclay, who…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Bomb in India. Mail Train Attacked. Two Europeans Injured. London
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 24 June 1908 · page 2
Another dastardly homb outrage is reported from India. When the Calcutta mail express was nearing Barrakpur, a suburb of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accident to a Circus Train. Wirths; Menagerie in Collision. Sydney
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 25 June 1908 · page 3
A telegram from Brisbane announces that the special train conveying Wirth Bros.'Circus and Monagerio smashed into a goods train at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New South Wales. Sydney, Wednesday. Alighting From a Moving Train. Fate of Anew Made Husband
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 25 June 1908 · page 3
A young man named Brewer, who resided at Enfield, attempted to jump off a moving train at Lewisham this morning. He did not land safely…
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