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Railways, roads & transport, 1909

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Flying As Safe As Motoring. the Best Type of Airship

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 18 August 1909 · page 3

we wonder if a [?] will ever be taken of the deaths through motors since the introduction of the vehicle into the kingdom. It would…

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Chinese Railway Dispute. Financial Difficulty Settled. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 19 August 1909 · page 2

Reuter's correspondent at Pukin announces that Mr. Fletcher, United states charged Affairs, and the Chinese Foreign office have between them settled the…

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Damages for a Tramway Collision. SYdney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 19 August 1909 · page 3

Mrs. Elizabeth Salby brought an nation against the railway commissioners to-day claiming the sum of £200 as damages for injuries sustained in an eletric tram…

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The Roads in the Municipality. Cause Serious Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 20 August 1909 · page 5

In more than one locality in the Corowa Municipal area the roods are in a shockingly bad state. There is no doubt that the winter season just passed through has…

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County Storekeepers Convention. Albury Chamber of Commerce and Railway Matters

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 20 August 1909 · page 2

The sixth convention of the Country storekeepers, Traders Association and Country Chambers of Commerce was opened in Sydney on Wednesday…

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Railway Guards with Skeleton Keys

Tocumwal Guardian and Finley Free Press · Friday 20 August 1909 · page 6
Also in The Riverine Grazier

Fifteen persons have been arrested at Marseilles in connection with robberies from passengers' luggage on the railways. For some time past (says…

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Koard of Bank Notes. Found in Italian Railway Carriage

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 August 1909 · page 35

A railway carriage cleaner while engaged at his work at Benevento, in Southern Italy, discovered in one of the carriages a cash box, which upon investigation was…

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Wyalong-lake Cudjellico Railway. Agricultural Possibilities. Fat Stock and Wool

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 August 1909 · page 16

Resumption of estates for closer settlement purposes so as to meet the great demand that exists for land to-day is very good in districts that are already…

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Motor Accident Military Party Cut Down

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 August 1909 · page 23

A serious casualty occurred to a detachment of tho London territorial forces who were returning from manoeuvres at the Roplestone camp. At Tilsden, in…

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Railway Extension to Tocumwal

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 20 August 1909 · page 5

On Wednesday week, in response to a conference by the Berrigan Shire at Tocumwal, there was a fairly large gathering of representatives from the…

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Rochester Under Water Melbourne Train Held Up

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 21 August 1909 · page 2

The train from Melbourne to Echuca was held up two miles south of Rochester yesterday on account of flood waters. The Deniliquin and Moama Company’s…

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Railway Accident Near Clunes. Engine Falls Into a Gully. Driver and Fireman Nearly Drowned

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 21 August 1909 · page 2

A railway accident occurred at Clunes yesterday. A show goods train, with two passenger carriages, carrying 30 people, was travelling on the southward…

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Overhead Bridge and Trucking Yards

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 23 August 1909 · page 2

The deputation next saw Mr. Johnson, Chief Railway Commissioner, re an overhead bridge across the line at Albury. Mr. Johnson, who was also cordiality…

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Mixed Train Wrecked. Thrilling Experiences

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 23 August 1909 · page 4

Daylight on Friday morning vividaly revealed the providential escape from awful death of the passengers and those in charge of the ill-fated train from Ballarat to…

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Killed on the Railway Mutilation of a Fetter Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 23 August 1909 · page 3

A letter whose name is supposed to be Lees, 'was killed on the railway line between Summer Hill and Ashfield on Saturday. The body was found by another…

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Motoring Tragedies Thirty-eight Fatal Accidents. Car Falls Over a Bridge. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 24 August 1909 · page 2

A Sensational sequence of fatal motor accidents marked the close of last week in the United States. On Friday, during a race at Indianapolis,…

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The Death Dealing Motor Huge Slaughter in America. 250 Deaths in One Week. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 25 August 1909 · page 2

Last week was a fateful one for motorists throughout the United States, and from all parts of the country reports of motor smashes have been received…

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On the Roads in the Upper Murray District. (By S.b.o.)

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 26 August 1909 · page 4

There is a proposition to borrow £10,000 and pay interest there on by the Tallungattu Council to make the roads good. The council would have to do more than pay…

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The Parson and the Trams His, Penchant for Free Sides Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 26 August 1909 · page 2

The Rev. Wallesley Moody. a well-known Congregationalist minister, who is 78 years of age, was charged at the police court to-day with travelling in the…

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