Cycling and Motoring
A Sydney racing cyclist who has just returned from a four years' trip to America, says that our racing looks very slow after being used to the small…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1911
600 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 2 of 30
That Motor-Car Tour
THIS (Wednesday) morning the four motor-car tourists, Messrs. Utley, Hives, 'Ted' Fitzgerald, and L. Gartrell, leave on their trip through unknown lands And hidden dangers…
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TWO persons were killed, one instantly, through an engine hitting a motor car at Auckland on Wednesday. A motor-car driven by Doctor Fullerton was run into by a train at a level…
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Wanganui, New Zealand, boosts a well-equipped fire brigade, and claims the distinction of having been the first Australasian town to adopt self-propelled fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Born in a Train
A YOUNG Australian boy made his first appearance in life the other morning as a passenger without a ticket on the north-western mail train between Maitland and Waratah. The…
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Wanganui, New Zealand, boasts a well-equipped fire brigade, and claims the distinction of having been the first Australasian town to adopt self-propelled fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stars and Stripes Trampled Upon
Serious demonstrations against Americans are reported from Mexico. According to a telegram received in New York from Reuter's correspondent…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Shocking Motor Accident
A shocking motor accident occurred at Lyndoch (S.A.), a young lady named Miss May being hurled over bridge and dashed to death. Her companion had a miraculous escape…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush Fires. Claims Against the Railway Commissioners
Following upon the verdict recently given for £3120 damages in an action brought by Mrs. Watson against the Railway Commissioners in respect of a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cycling and Motoring
As showing the advance made in construction of the up-to-date motor cycle, it is interesting to note that at the recent English Olympia Show a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Collision in Wales
Details of the railway disaster in Wales states that the bodies of eight men and of three children were recovered. Among the men were three members of the South Wales Miners'…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Smash at Central Railway Station
A SMASH occurred at [?]e Central Railway Station, Sydney, on Saturday morning, when two runaway engines couped together crashed into a set of 15 standing empty carriages…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Motor Car Tourists
MESSRS Hives, Utley, Gartrell, and Fitzgerald, who left Dubbo on Wednesday morning on a tour, spent Saturday aud Sunday in Sydney. An extract from a letter received reads: --…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Railway Accident
A railway engine dashed into and telescoped a number of coal waggons at Adamstown, near Newcastle, yesterday. The locomotive toppled over into a ditch. The driver and fireman had…
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Before the Decentralisation Commission yesterday morning Major J. Hoad tendered expert evidence as to the condition of the State railways in relation…
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Giving evidence before the Decentralisation Commission in Sydney on Monday Major-General Hoad. Chief of the Commonwealth section of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tram-men's Strike. London
The tramway men at Johannesburg struck against an obnoxious Inspector, After a stoppage for some time the inspector was removed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Cablegrams. Railway Disaster in South Wales. London, Monday night
A disastrous railway collision has occurred near Pontyprida, in South Wales. A train conveying 300 passengers overtook a coal train, and ran…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War in the Air. Aeroplane V. Dirigible. Difficulty of Destroying a Balloon
Mr W. F. Reid, lecturing on Tuesday at a meeting of the Aeronautical Society (said "Lloyd's News" on October 30) expressed the opinion that the destructive…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Richmond Railway Disaster
The departmental inquiry into the cause of the Richmond railway disaster has concluded. Several of the employees were p[?]d. The engine driver was fined £30, and the fireman…
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