Motor-Car Fatality
Dr. Horne, a well known Victorian medico, was fatally injured in a motor car accident yesterday…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1908
547 stories in New England's papers · page 9 of 28
"The Broken Road." Story Op the Frontier. Vividly Descriptive
In the "Daily Mail" of 17th July George Gascoyne writes:— If you would understand aright the haunting attraction of the Indian…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Latest Telegraphic News. Sydney, Thursday 12.50 A.M. Murrurundi Train Disaster
THE report of the Murrurundi collision boar states that the accident was due to the manner in which the wiguala were operated. The blame for the accident lay…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Stranded Motor-car. an Incident of the P[?]kinparis Race
On Wednesday early in June, 1907, a motor would have been noticed (if, indeed, there was anyone to see it in such a lonely place) ploughing its…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Bates. Svdnew
A NEW by-law has been issued by the Railway Commissioners, providing for a reduction in some of the rates…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Reduced Railway Fares
WEDNESDAY'S "Government Gazette" contained a new bye-law issued by the Chief Commissioner for Railways providing for several alternations in railway rates. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bishop Doyle on American Railways
"THEY caught me young; I've been a Bishop ever since my 37th birthday, and have passed the last thirty-three years in Australia," genially remarked…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →White Hill Road
The following letter, from Mr. John Cameron, appears in the Hillgrove 'Guardian':—"I would be pleased if you would, in the interest of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Train Breaks Down
The mail-train from Tamworth to Sydney broke down at Wyong yesterday morning, through the bursting of a boiler-pipe…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railways Built for War
There is something very sinister in the news, telegraphed from India the other day, that the Russians have at length completed the great steel and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A New Armoured Motor Car
A recent invention of Mr. Frederick K. Simms, for use in time of war. In general appearance the car may be described as a "mobile conning…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Inverell Motor Service
DESPITE the fact that past codeavore have nor [?]lminsted in a regular services of motors between Glen Innes and Inverell, the desire to bring these important towns into slo[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Death in a Tram-car. Sydney
GEORGE STEPHEN, a shipwright of Balmain, died suddenly in a tram-car yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →North, Coast Railway. Sydney
THE contract for the first section of the North Coast Railway, from West Maitland to Dongog, was signed yesterday…
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AN attractive motor car, capable of car[?]ing seven passengers passed through to [?] on Saturday morning. It contained [?]ty of gentlemen who were going to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Inventor of the Motor
TWENTY-five years ago a young man with a scheme for a carriage to be run by a gasoline motor called upon a large manufacturer of vehicles and farm…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Killed by a Motor Car
SHORTLY before 5 o'olock on Saturday afternoon a motor car fatality occurred in Collegestreet, a man - med Henry Weller, a printer, about 37 years of age, being knocked…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Accident. Sydney, Monday Afternoon
THE driver of the motor car which knocked down and killed H. Weller in Oxford-street, on Saturday, was brought before the court to-day, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Management
The editor of the "Newsletter " (Sydney), expresses himself in the following trenchant manner in respect to the mismanagement of our…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accident in a Train
While leaning his arm out of a train window last night, Constable Twiss sustained a terrible fracture, through being struck by a passing…
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