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Railways, roads & transport, 1904

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The Moor End Mystery Published by Special Arrangement. Copyright. Chapter Xv.--on the Bridge. (Dr. Tring's Narrative.)

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 15 July 1904 · page 2

' I had no difficulty in gaining admittance to the cells. The sergeant in charge know me, and was an obliging fellow…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Friday. Alleged Assault in a Train. An Arrest Made

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 16 July 1904 · page 5

A girl, aged 19, jumped, from a train approaching the platform at Perth, asserting that a male passenger attempted to insult her. The girl was…

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Cycling and Motoring Notes

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 16 July 1904 · page 7

Particulars are to hand from France of a wonderful piece of paced riding by the French crack, Bruni, who gives promise of being the finest pace…

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Railway Station Stuck Up

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 16 July 1904 · page 5

The Would be Robber Decamps. The Buddagunnie Railway Station, near Benalla, Victoria, was stuck up last night by a masked man, who…

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Tram Collision

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 20 July 1904 · page 5

An electric tram-car at Auckland Violently collided' with a 'steam roller A number of passengers were injured…

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Dunlop Road Race

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 22 July 1904 · page 4

AMONGST the handicaps for the Dunlop road race from Goulburn to Sydney to be run on August 6th, are the names of G. and J. Johnson, two local riders, who have been allotted 35 minutes…

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Letters to the Editor. We do not necessarily endorse our Correspondents remarks. Reddestone Road

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 22 July 1904 · page 4

SIR,-- I would like to remind my neighbors of Reddestone that the excellent road leading from Reddestone to Glen Innes was constructed by the See Ministry at the…

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New Railway Station. SYDNEY, Thursday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 22 July 1904 · page 5

THERE are now about 360 men at work on the new central railway station, which is in the Belmore electorate, for which Mr. O'Sullivan is a…

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New Zealand Railways. Wellington (N.z.)

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 22 July 1904 · page 5

THE net profits in connection with the New Zealand railways last year amounted to £742,000…

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Rail-way Servants and Politics. SYDNEY

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 22 July 1904 · page 5

THE Railway Commissioners state that the regulation preventing railway servants from taking an active part in politics is uniform throughout…

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Railway Men and Politics

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 22 July 1904 · page 5

The Railway Commissioners state that the regulation preventing railway servants from taking an active part in politics is uniform throughout Australia…

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Payable Railways

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 22 July 1904 · page 5

The net profits in connection with the New Zealand railways last year amounted to nearly £742,000. LONDON, WEDNESDAY…

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Russian Plundering. Royal Hospital Train Robbed by Officials

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 23 July 1904 · page 7

London, June 11.—Russia is a land literally given up to tyrants and plunderers. To such a pass have matters come that nothing is held sacred. The…

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John Bridge & Co's., Ltd., Report

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 26 July 1904 · page 4

Wool:--No auctions have been held during the past week, and business has been restricted to sales of a few parcels of greasy and some important…

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The Came of Bridge the Feminine Fascination

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 27 July 1904 · page 2

As [?] people are aware, the great card game which has takes society by [?] Why this game should have attained the [?]…

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Great Motor Race World's Championship. Spirited Description

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 27 July 1904 · page 3

Talk about sensation, said a gentleman who had Just returned from seeing, the motor, world championship races in Florida—why, to witness a close finish…

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Robbery at a Railway Station

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 27 July 1904 · page 5

The railway station at Auchen Flower (Queensland) was broken into and property valued at £250 stolen…

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Port Stephen's' Road

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 30 July 1904 · page 2

Sickness.-- Mrs W. F. Stier of Morgan's Gully, has been laid up for the past few days Within slight attack of congestion…

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New Tramway-cars for Smokers

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 30 July 1904 · page 3

Although on the Continent the tramway companies have long considered the needs of their smoking passengers, British companies have rigidly…

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The Suspension Bridge To the Editor

The Inverell Argus · Tuesday 2 August 1904 · page 3

Sir,—Permit me to correct a statement appearing in your paper of the 26th June, in which it is set out that the estimated cost of the proposed suspension bridge to…

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