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North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1907

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Agricultural Instruction Train

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 1 January 1907 · page 3

A popular means of imparting special information on agricultural subjects adopted in the United States, is the instruction train. A train is fitted up with…

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Woman's Fatal Leap. Fight in a Train

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 1 January 1907 · page 2

A woman named Maggie Jones lost her life in a sensational manner on the Taff Vale railway on Saturday night, 20th October…

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Modern Smuggling. Pretty Woman and Motor

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 1 January 1907 · page 7

The customs authorities on the Franco-Swiss frontier are in despair concerning Mile. Marthe Rey, a pretty woman who has adopted wholesale…

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New Railway Commissioners

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 1 January 1907 · page 4

IT is generally understood in wellinformed political circles that the government has d[?]ided upon two at least of the new Railway Commissioners…

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An Object Lesson the German Railway Department

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 4 January 1907 · page 7

Germany is a beaureaucratic country. Our experience of Government deportments leads us to the belief that whatever is done by a Government is badly…

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Railway Rates and Freights

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Saturday 5 January 1907 · page 6

In his Budget speech, the State Treasurer announced that the Railway Commissioners proposed to make a reduction amounting to £150,000 in…

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General News. North Coast Railway

Manilla Express · Saturday 5 January 1907 · page 1

THE Minister for Works states that the construction of the section of the North Coast railway between West Maitland and Taree, a distance of 110…

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The Sunken Train. an American Accident. Drowned Like Rats

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 8 January 1907 · page 3

From New York, on 30th October, the correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" wrote:-- Further information falls to lessen…

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An Expensive Tram Ride

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 8 January 1907 · page 4

As a general rule, one may ride by tramear from the Central Railway Station to Circular Quay for 1d, but there are occasions when the journey costs…

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Bridge Dynamited. Express Waits the While

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 9 January 1907 · page 3

On the Brighton and South Coast Railway the other day a bridge over the line was destroyed by dynamite, while the 5 o'clock express from Brighton waited a…

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War Against Bridge. a Young Girl's Losses

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 11 January 1907 · page 3

From New York on 15th October tho correspondent of the London "Dally Mall" wrote:-- Mr Justice Shuster's decision on…

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A Railway Comedy. Chase After a Passenger

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 11 January 1907 · page 7

The Geneva correspondent of the London "Dally Mail" wrote, on 23rd October:-- Tourists travelling in the "express"…

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Railway Management

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 11 January 1907 · page 4

ALTHOUGH the members of the State Government deliberated in Cabinet on Monday for fully three hours, at the end of it Mr. Carruthers was not in a…

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Attacked in a Train. LONDON

Manilla Express · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 2

An English lady has been murderously attacked on the railway from Genoa to Paris. The assailant escaped. The victim is in a serious condition…

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Railway Bars

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 6

The following regulation governing the sale of liquor at railway stations to inebriates against whom a prohibition order is in force has been notified…

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The Railway Chiefs

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 5

A "Sunday Times" representative on Saturday had a conversation with a high political authority regarding the new Railway Chiefs…

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Agricultural Instruction Train

The Moree News · Friday 18 January 1907 · page 3

A popular means of imparting special Information on agricultural subjects adopted in the United States. is in the instruction train. A train is fitted up with…

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War Against Bridge. a Young Girl's Losses

The Moree News · Friday 18 January 1907 · page 3

From New York on 15th October the correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" wrote:-- Mr Justice Shuster's decision on Saturday…

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Balloon Triumph. Aerial Motor-car

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 18 January 1907 · page 7

M. Santos-Dumont has won the Archdeacon Cup by flying about seventy yards in his new aeroplane, The Bird of Prey, which fulfils the condition of…

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Motor-car Traffic London Detectives' Crusade

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 18 January 1907 · page 3

Scotland Yard is apparently doing its best to satisfy the numerous writers of indignant letters concerning the misdeeds of motor-omnibuses. Each day the…

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