Motor Cycling
The Newcastle Motor Cycle Club will hold the Neptune 10-mile handicap on Wallsend racecourse to-day. This event was to have taken place last Saturday, but owing to bad…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1918
824 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 42
"Remedy at Once" Our Railway Service
Mr. B. Scott Holland, town clerk, has addressed the following letter to Messers. Grahame, Gardiner, Estell and Edden, M.L.A.'s in reference to the Sydney-Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shell-swept Roads Driving a Bucking Ford
Robert Reaser was studying art when the call of the war came. He Joined the City Club Ambulance Unit in New York, and is now "over there." Reaser is only nineteen,…
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The position is increasingly serious. The Germans are pressing towards Airevillers, through the forest behind Merville, and between Teteren and Fletre…
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At the inquest concerning the death of Ivy Florence Allen, a member of the Hotel Australia orchestra, and Cecil Rust, who were killed…
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Frank Nolan, aged 16, pleaded not guilty to travelling on a tram without paying his fare Michael Clark, conductor on the tram, stated he was in charge of the…
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Sir,—To clear the atmosphere in reference to the motion moved by me in the Hamilton Council that the finance committee should go into ways and means…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Nine Days' Battle Heroic Frenchmen Fight for Amiens Road LONDON, Tuesday night
Reuter's correspondent at French Headquarters telegraphed on Sunday night: "One of the bitterest engagements of the great battle was fought on Friday for…
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Complaint is frequently made in Newcastle, especially by visitors to the city, concerning the difficulty experienced in ascertaining the details of…
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Sir,—I am a visitor from Melbourne, coming here five week ago. I paid a visit to Cardiff on Sunday afternoon, and not being strong, took the train from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Pound of Tea Railway Carriage Talk
Unfortunately this war has not taught us to mind our own business. We know more about each other's ways and means than we did before. The beam in our own eyes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shot at Train Carriage Window Shattered ARMIDALE
While the mail train from Sydney to Tenterfield was slowing down for Dundee station, the occupants of one of the carriages were startled by a loud report, and a…
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A motor cycling carnival is to be held on the Newcastle Showground on Saturday next, in aid of the Red Cross funds. A good programme has been arranged,…
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Representatives of the Newcastle, Hamilton, and Now Lambton Councils mot Mr. E. J. Doran, Tramway Traffic Superintendent, at the Newcastle Council…
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Sir,—As one of the members of the deputation which waited upon the Railway Commissioners recently regarding the Newcastle-Sydney railway services, [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Victorian Railway Union. Melbourne
The railway men decided at their annual conference to reaffirm the desirableness of one big union for the railway service, with the ultimate object of its…
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To-day the Newcastle Motor Cycle Club are assisting the Broadmeadow Coo-[?] Girls at their sports on the Show Ground. Two events are being put on—a three mile handicap, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Morpeth Railway Service
Sir,—I would like to point out some of the many inconveniences the people of Morpeth have to put up with under the existing railway time-table. The first…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Great Railway Engine to Haul 1600 TONS
The now consolidation engine built by the Victorian Railway department for the goods traffic has a tractive power of 36,138 lb., and it is capable of hauling 555 tons behind…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Like the Tanks Steam Tram's Performance SYDNEY
A steam tram jumped the rails at Rocks Point-road, Kogarah, this morning, ploughed across the road, almost at right angles, and pulled up on the footpath within a few feet…
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