Tax on Motor Cars. Request to Victorian Authorities
Letters from Mr. R. Patten, M.H.R., Mr.J.Cusack, M.L.A., and the Automobile Club of Victoria, were received at the meeting of the Albury Municipal…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1914
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Dangers of the Road. to the Editor
Sir,—During the past eight weeks I have travelled considerably over several roads leading to Berrigan, and what strikes [?] most is the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tunnel Set on Fire. Train Passengers Burnt. Washington, February 8
A message from C[?]udad Juarez, in the extreme north of Mexico, states that it is reported, there that the Mexico and North-western train ran into a burning…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →New Train Route to Sydney. To be Opened on May 1. Tocumwal-finley Extension
The Railway department announces that by May 1 an additional route for railway passengers from Melbourne to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Road Formations in the Carrathool Shire. The Overseer's Alleged Leniency. Lively Discussion in the Council
At the January meeting of the Shire Council of Canathool, the overseer (Mr Varcoe) reported upon contract 10/13, stating that the work by contractor H…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tales of Railway Ghosts
The stillness of the night on the ray, except when the mail train goes flashing by the twinkling of the various light's, and the utter loneliness of its many miles of…
Continued on Trove, page 39 →Inter-state. Building Railways by Contract
The Prime Minister" said this week that the sleeper contract, by which the Western Australian, Government was to have supplied powellised karri sleepers for use…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Panama Canal Tolls. Canadian-pacific Railway Influence. Washington
A new element has been imported into the Panama tolls question by Senator O'Gorman, who blames the directors of the Canadian-Pacific Railway for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Kaiser in Danger. Motor Collison Averted. Berlin
Yesterday's criticism in the Prussian Dict of the reckless speed of Royal motor cars was unpleasantly illustrated in the course of a hurries visit by the Kaiser…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cycling and Motoring
Careful measurement of the course selected by C. W. Korner of South Australia for his recent world's record for an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Woman's Pluck Saves Train. Rushing on to Wrecked Bridge 150 Lives in Peril. San Francisco
Telegrams from Denver, Colorado, state that the pluck and presence of mind of a woman telephone operator prevented a great railway disaster when the dam of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Albury and Border Association. Railway V. Stock Agents
This match was played on Show Ground on Saturday, and resulted in a rather easy win for Railway by two wicket and 153 runs. Stock Agents, were, however, minus…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British Parliament. Accidents in Mines and on Railway. London
During the debate on the Address in Reply, Mr. W. Brace, Labor M.P. for Glamorgan, moved an amendment calling attention to the number of accident in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →General Cable News. English Railway Unions. London
Inquiries made at the headquarters of the various railway companies elicited that there is no truth in the report that they had decided to recognise the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Chinese Railway. Peking
By dint of promising £800,000 bargain money, the Franco-Chinese Industrial Bank has obtained a concession for the construction of a railway in Southern China, from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Racing Accident. Car Dashes Into Crowd. One Killed; Six Badly Hurt. San Francisco
While racing round a motor track at Los Angeles yesterday, a well-known motorist named Davo Lewis lost control of his car, and the consequences were disastrous…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Mad Motorist. Terrifies Countryside. London
For several hours on Sunday a feeling akin to terror was created among folks abroad in Wiltshire by the dangerous eccentricities of a motorist. His car sped…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor-cycle Up Ben Nevis
A 6 horse-power motor-cycle with a sidecar, driven by Mr. D. Bell, of Glasgow, has just climbed to the top of Ben Nevis Mr. Bell, who was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Victorian Main Roads Board
Messrs. Calder (chairman), McCormack, and Fricke, members of the Main Roads Board, met the Bright Shire Council on Monday, and discussed several roads…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cricket. Thurgoona V. Railway
The following will play for Thurgoona on the Thurgoona ground next Saturday:—M.Daley,W. Ford, A.J.Kerr, J.Hall, E.Pepper, H.Weissel, H. Hoffmann, R…
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