Sydney Tram Accident. 16 Persons Injured
While a tram was proceeding up King Street on Saturday afternoon the brakes suddenly failed and the tank blew out. Driver Coote applied…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1913
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Railway Maladministration
One of the most justifiable, emphatic, and generally-endersed complaints against any branch of the public service in New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accident on the Road
Mr. W. T. Dangar (Kempsey district) had a very exciting and painful experience while on his way to Crescent Head on Boxing Day. The horse he was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Weather. Heavy Falls in Queensland. Railway Washaway. Brisbane
Some exceedingly heavy rainfalls were registered in Queensland during the 24 hours which ended 9 a.m. to-day, including Gundiah 356 points, Gympie 272, Yandina…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Big Scheme. Railway Amalgamation. London
The Amalgamated Railway Servants and the General Railway Workers and United Pointsmen and Signalmen have decided to amalgamate under the title of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Boat Accident
A painful accident happened Mr. Englert's little son, aged 1 year and 9 months, yesterday. Mrs. Englert and two children were waiting in a motor boat at Ballina…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Main Roads
On instructions from the Minister for Public Works, the shires classification advisory committee has completed a now classification of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Obstructing a Road
Under the ordinances relating to municipalities it is provided that no person shall place or cause to be placed on any footpath or road or public place, any…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Main Roads Crants for Shires. Bill to Be Reintroduced. Sydney
While electioneering in Oberon the Minister for Works, Mr, Griffith, visited the shire meeting, and explained that £250,000, which had been put on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Motor Cars
Since the business of the New England Motor Co. changed to the present hands it has increased to such a degree that in order to cope…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Upper Clarence Railway
Mr. J. McFarlane, M.L.A., has forwarded to the secretary of the Grafton Chamber of Commerce the following report of Mr. Jamieson's…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Tram Smash
A sensational tram smash, attended by injury to many of the passengers, occurred last Saturday afternoon in King-street, Sydney. A tram bound for…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Town Holds Tramp Races
A town in North Carolina (U.S.A.) has at last found a way to rid itself of the multitude of tramps which has infected it. Deside the railway that runs through the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tramps'secret Signs
French tramps and footpads communicate with each other by means of secret code formed of hieroglyphic signs. Wandering beggars are able to give infornation to each…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Railway Outrage. Lady Thrown From Train
Information has reached Calcutta to the effect that a young Hindu woman, after being robbed of all her belongings, was deliberately thrown but of a train when…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Longest Train on Record
America remains the home of the record. This time it is the longest train on record which must go to the credit of America. Recently a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Six Days' Road Race
There was a wild scene at the six days' bicycle race in Sydney at 1.30 on Wednesday morning. The riders were loafing to such an extent that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motors versus Railways
It is already in the way of positive proof (the proof presenting itself in the shape of metor-impelled vans, and lorries conveying heavy as…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The March of the Motor
The great increase of motor vehicles in London of late has often teen the subject of comment. The development in the same direction…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Accident. Fall Into the River. Huntington (W. Virginia)
Eight men were killed and fifteen injured in an accident to a freight train on the Ohio-Chesapeake Railroad, which fell through a bridge over the Guyandotte…
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