How to Fly a Marvellous Experience. An Aeroplane in Melbourne
Among the passengers who arrived by the R.M.S. Macedonia, last week. was Colin Defrios, whose mission in Australia is to provide a series of…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1909
706 stories in Murray's papers · page 15 of 36
Tram Accident in Indiana Ten Persons Killed. London
A shocking trainway accident is reported from Indiana, the "Hoosler" state in the American Union. In the city of Chesterton two electric…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New South Wales. Sydney, Monday. North Coast Railway
Tenders closed today for the continuation of the second section of the North Coast railway line, viz., from [?] were received and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Killed on the Railway
The dead body of what has transpired to be a married woman named Lucy Thomas was found on the railway line at Tooneabble station near Parrmatta this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lynching a Motorist
Only the arrival of a strung force of police saved the life of Mr. Hirschbach, a millionaire clothier, whose motor car killed a 14-year-old boy in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British Army Aeroplane. Successful Trail Flight
The British Parliamentary Aerial [?] having a capacity of 227,500 cubic feet, is fast approaching completion.,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Driving States in a Road a Drover Fined
At the Albury Police Court yesterday, before the P.M., [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Victorian Railways Standing Committee. Visit to Euston. Euston
The members comprising the Victorian Railways Standing Committee arrived here yesterday evening, per steamer Invincible, from Mildura…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Murray Waters. River Trade Figures. Railway Competition's Effect
The Royal commission appointed to take evidence in regard to the Murray River waters' question continued its sittings yesterday, at the state…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cablegrams. Cairo to Cape Railway Working From the North. London
[?] pleg[?] being made with the Cairo to Cape railway, which is an extension of the line from Khartoum designed to meet the Cape to Cairo railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Devouring Motor Car
An inquiry was held to-day concerning the death of a boy named Frank Langbridge, 10 years of age, who was run over and killed last Saturday at Petersham by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bowna Bridge Inadequate
The Bowna bridge is utterly [?]ndequate to carry away storm waters The proaches so far as can be seen, are destroyed. Some years age the old bridge…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The River Murray in Flood. Eleven Feet of Water Coming Down Low-lying Lands Submerged. Various Mail Coaches Delayed. the Bowna Bridge in Danger
Owing to the heavy and continuous downpour of rain floods are chronicled from [?], parts of the district. A reference to the rainfall table printed in this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Civic Corruption. Railway Millionaire Charged. London, Juno 21
The trial of Patrick Calhoun, a Californian millionaire, on charges of extensive corruption, has concluded at San Francisco…
Continued on Trove, page 43 →Trams Collide. Ten Killed. London, June 21
A street-car collision, attended with fatal consequences, occurred yesterday at Chesterton, Indiana. Two electric trams, travelling at a high…
Continued on Trove, page 43 →Signal Code of Trampdom
Readers of stories about the tramp and bis ways are, perhaps, inclined to take what they read with a grain of salt, but this much may be said with a certainty:…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Action Against the Railway Department Senior Constable Awarded Sydney
Before Mr. Justice Pring and a jury to-day the case was concluded in which Edward Albert Twiss, a senior constable, stationed at Burwood, sued the Chief…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Kindly Motorist’s Surprise
A motorist ran dawn and [?] hen. He was a conscientious [?] so instead of racing along, [?] of the grief of the owners of [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Clear Hills Railway
Mr. R. T. Ball, M.L.A. notifies that the second tenders for the Lockhart-Clear Hills railway closed on Monday 21st inst. Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Walking Parson Eight-hundred Mile Tramp
The "walking parson," as the Rev. A. N. Cooper, vicar of Filey, Yorkshire (England), is familiarly called, started on the night of April 16 on another…
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