Cycling on French Roads
A CLERGYMAN who made a tour through France on his bicycle during the past summer punctured his tyres so frequently upon the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New England · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1897
230 stories in New England's papers · page 4 of 12
A Forty-mile Bridge
THE great project of bridging over Palk's Strait, separating the island of Ceylon from the mainland of India, for which such important…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Extraordinary Murder in a Railway Carriage
A MURDER which has baffled the skill of the Loudon police occurred in February on one of the suburban lines. Elizabeth Camp, a self-reliant woman of 33, on the eve of being married, went a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Inverell Railway
BY a majority of one, viz, seven votes to six, the Public Works Committee has decided to recommend to Parliament the construction of a railway from Moree to I[?]. We must say that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Railway Murder. a Strange Story
THE Scotland Yard authorities, having disposed of the clue reported from the district of Beading, which culminated in the arrest of a man named Marshall, at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Inverell Railway. (From the Waewick Argus.)
WE drew attention last issue to the fact that the New South Wales Government had referred to the Public Works Committee for enquiry and report the question…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Light Railways : What might be Accomplished between Grafton and Glen Innes
A SPL[?]NDID object lesson ol the value of Light Railways for rapidly opening up new and inaccessible districts is furnished by Tasmania in the Zeehan Dundas line. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CABLEGRAM S. SYUNAV, Friday. War News. a Terrible Night. Tre Grecian Retreat From Larissa. a Mad Rush for Miles. Turks Supfosed to Be Pursuing. Wild Firing Be Greeks. an Indescriable Scene. Killing Their Own People. Road Strewn with Dead and Dying. When the Moon Rose—talk of Mediation
Terrible accounts are to hand concorning the retreat of the Greeks from Larissa. The night wee pitch dark, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →North Shore Bridge
The Government has decided that it is not justified in constructing either a bridge or a tunnel to connect the railway system with North Shore…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →How They Make Good Roads in America
MASSACHUSETTS is foremost in the work of constructing good roads, her example having already been followed by six other states. The system which the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shocking Railway Fatality. (Tuesday's Tamworth News.)
A DREADFUL railway accident, which restilted in the death of a widow woman named Matilda Winter, happened on Saturday night about 9 o'cloct. It appears…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Report
The Railway Commissioners' report for March quarter states that the earnings of the railways for that period show an increase of £43,000, and the expenditure an increase of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Railway Accident
TAMWORTH, Monday.--A shocking fatality happened on the railway line about a mile from Tamworth station on Saturday night at a place known as Winter's Crossing. The gatekeeper…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Paris Disaster. the City in Mourning. Fearful Panic. Women and Children Trampled to Death. Two Hundred Victims
A file occurred at a bazaar which was being held in Paris last Tuesday in aid of a charity, and at which 1800 of the elite of the city were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Conference. Sydney, Monday Afternoon
AT a conference between the New South Wales and Victorian Railway Commissioners it was decided that undercutting in the wool rates should not be carried on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shocking Railway Accident. [By Cable.] London
THROUGH a train becoming derailed at Rockenhof, in Russia, a hundred soldiers, were killed and sixty injured…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Run Over by a Train. Supposed Case of Suicide
A man named John May was run over and killed by a train near Granville to-day. He was walking along the line when a train opproached…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Catastrophe. [By Cable.] London
A TERRIBLE railway accident has occurred at Gerolstein, a town in Prussia, a train conveying 1000 soldiers being derailed. The train ran completely off the line, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The London Tramp
He gives fourpence for his bed, and for this he gets a flock bed and pillow on a bedstead, sheets, blankets; and maybe a couple of rugs in the extra-cold weather. An extra…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Railways and the Drought
The Railway Commissioners, with a view to affording assistance to pasto[?]lists and others during the continuance of the drought, have…
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