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Railways, roads & transport, 1910

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Fatal Motor Accident. Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 25 June 1910 · page 5

A fatal motor car accident occurred this afternoon in East prahran, at the corner of Chatsworth-road and high-street. Samuel Haas, the charuffeur in charge of the…

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Scientific Notes. Motor Tricycle Fire Apparatus

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 25 June 1910 · page 2

Fire extinguishing authorities are constantly agitating for new and improved forms of emergency fire engines for narrow city streets; but it…

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Wonderful Amphibious Motor. The Latest Thing in Army Tactics

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 25 June 1910 · page 2

The idea of a combined motor-car and motor boat is not an entirely new one, but the first vehicle of the kind to be officially taken up by any…

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Canadian Railways Big Labor Dispute Threatened. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 27 June 1910 · page 2

The employes of the Grand Trunk Ranway Company of Canada have rejected an award of the Arbitration Board, and declare that they will not accept a lower…

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Transcontinental Railway a West Australian Proposal. Perth

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 27 June 1910 · page 2

Speaking at the annual dinner of the West Australian Chamber of Manufactures to-night, the Acting Premier stated that he had telegraphed to the Premier…

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Tolmie Railway Blocked

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 27 June 1910 · page 3

The Victorian Premier, replying to a question on Saturday said that the effect of the Cabinet's decision on Friday in adopting the report of the Closer Settlement…

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New South Wales. Sydney Sunday. Trams Held Up for an Hour

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 27 June 1910 · page 3

The Sydney teams were brought to a standstill at 7.35 on Saturday night owing to the leakage of one of the underground feeders for the electric current between…

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Four Hours on a Tram

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 27 June 1910 · page 3

Leslie Bear, 30, residing at Dalgetyst. St. Kilda, was admitted to the melbouren Hospital late on Friday night suffering from a fractured leg. An extraordinary…

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Another Tram Hold Up

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 28 June 1910 · page 3

Another annoying bold ap of the Sydney tramway service took place at 1.15 this afternoon. It was due to a short circuit at the Central Power Station. All the…

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Railway Extension to Oaklands

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 28 June 1910 · page 2

In reference to the extension of the railway line from Mucra to Oakland which has been agitating the minds of residents in those districts we learn that…

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Some Victorian Government Proposals. Attitude Towards Upper Murray Railway

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 30 June 1910 · page 3

The tea meeting and concert held in corder to celebrate the reopening of the Wbdonga State school was a huge success. At the concert standing room was hardly…

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How Champion Boxers Train

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 July 1910 · page 5

Tommy Burns, the man who defeated our Gunner Moir and fought such a plucky fight with Johnson in Australia, is a very severe critic of the English methods of…

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Railway Disaster. Train Dashed to Pieces. 37 Soldiers Killed. London, June 24

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 July 1910 · page 42

A terrible railway accident is reported from Mexico. A troop train on the line between Colima and Manzanillo, a port on tho west coast, broke loose, while running…

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Ocean Tramps

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 July 1910 · page 41

Thirty years ago, before the economically worked tramp cargo steamer cut into the oversea, carrying trade to the detriment of the stately windjammer, clipper…

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Cholera Raging. Fugitives by Railway. "Dying Like Flies." London. June 24

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 July 1910 · page 43

The position at Rostov-on-Don, in Southern Russia, is becoming every day more appalling as the result of the cholera epidemic. Three hundred fresh cases are…

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Head Smashed to Pieces Fatality on Railway [?] Melbourne, [?]

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 1 July 1910 · page 3

This afternoon a shocking [?] occurred at the Dudley-street railway [?] between North-Melbourne and Spencer-street railway stations, when a man at present…

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Robberies of Railway Material Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 1 July 1910 · page 3

An employe in the carriage department of the Eveleigh Railway Workshops was arrested yesterday in connection with extensive robberies of metal and other…

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American Railway Freights

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 1 July 1910 · page 2

The Interstate Commerce Commission sitting at Washington, is now inquiring into the freight rates of the chief rail-roads. The commission has decided that…

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Reduction of Railway Freights

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 1 July 1910 · page 5

Mr. E. Lonsdale, who represents Armidale in the Legislative Assembly, speaking on the Address-in-Reply, last week, said: -- All money…

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Settlement in the Riverina. the Urgency of Railways

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 1 July 1910 · page 6

A Lockhart correspondent, signing himself "Justice," writes: -- "It is quite in keeping with the attitude of the New South Wales Government…

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