The Success of Aeroplane
The rivalry between the dirigible baloon and the heavier-than-air flying machine grows in intendity; but at the rate at which the heavier-than-air machine is…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1908
491 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 22 of 25
London News. Eucharistic Congress.—mr. Kidston on Australia's Future.—trades Union Congress.—the Success of Aeroplane.—launching Ceremony by Lady Beauchamp.—the Abolition of Tuberculosis.—wireless Telephony. London, September 11. Eucharistic Congress
For the first time in 350 years a Papal legate made a public apperance in Britain on Wednesday. In the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Westminster Cardinal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Tramway Board. the Croucher Case
The Board appointed under the Industrial Dispute Act to hear the claims at the Tramway Employees' Union continued its sittings to-day, under the presidency…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An Aeroplane Wreck. London
Mr. S. F. Cody, of the Farnborough Balloon School, was experimenting with an aeroplane, at Aldershot, yesterday, when the machine, through…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tramp Shipping Outlook
"The Baltic, or that portion of it which houses the shipping industry" (says an exchange) "is not a happy place of meeting just now. In the absence of business men…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tram Strike at Cairo. Higher Wages Wanted. London
The conductors and collectors in the employ of the Belgian Tramway Company at Cairo struck for higher wages, and prevented European…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Launch Capsized. Brisbane
The motor launch Echo, containing six persons, including two ladies, was proceeding down the river to-night from Brisbane, and when in the Garden Beach,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Train Arrangements
The new railway time-table foreshadowed some weeks ago will come late operation to-morrow. There will be two important alterations in the running…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Porter Killed
A fatal accident happened at the Dyke at about six o'clock yesterday morning. the victim being James Doyle, 32 years of age, who was temporartly in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Tramway Board. Refusal to Employ Men. Sydney
The Tramway Board continued its sittings this morning. It heard argument on Thursday with respect to the question raised by Mr. Lamb as to whether the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The State Railways
The report of Mr. T. Johnson, Chief Railway Commissioner, for the quarter ended September 30, states that the gross earnings show an increase of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Great Motor Race. an American Record. London
Seventeen cars started for the Vanderbilt Cup race at New York. George Robertson, driving an American car, was the winner, covering 268 miles in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Tramway Board. Question of Reinstatement. Sydney
The Tramway Board resumed its sittings this morning under the presidency of Mr. Justice Street. Mr. MacLauria appeared for the union; and Mr. Lamb…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →State-owned Railways
State ownership of railroads is the subject of a report recently issued by a British Commission. Forty-one countries are dealt with, the number being…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Kyogle to Coraki Railway. Sydney
The Public Works Committee's report on the proposed railway from Kyogle to Coraki via Casino was laid on the table of the House to-night…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Tramway Board. Chief Commissioner's Evidence Sydney
The Tramway Board resumed its sittings this morning, under the presidency of Mr. Justice Street. Mr. Maclaurin appeared for the union, and Mr. Lamb for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our Railways
Sir,—The large and annually increasing profit placed to the credit of the Government from railway earnings must be gratifying to many, but out of this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →London News. London, Sept. 25th, 1908. the Lock-out in Lancashire.—south African Federation.—lords to Be Elected.—mr. Carnegie's Gift To—british Heroes.—the Death of General Luard.—the Railway Combine.—the Cholera Outbreak.—the Wallabies. the Lock-out in Lancashire
The worst that could have been feared has happened in Lancashire. Some 110,000 men and women have been either locked out or deprived of their…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →No Railway Combine
In the Stock Exchange they merely smile over the stories of colossal combination among the railway companies which are getting afloat. Regret,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Tramway Board. Intervention by the Crown. Sydney
Mr. Wade, the State Premier, had something to say yesterday concerning the decision of Mr. Justice Street last week (to which attention was drawn in the…
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