Cheating the Railway. a £80,000 Fraud
Cresus Bosaquet, an Italian music-hall manager, obtained a number of special trunks, filled them with sand, and pasted on them…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1914
653 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 4 of 33
Serious Railway Smash
A serious railway smash occurred yesterday morning between Adamstown and Cardiff tunnel, Newcastle. Owing to the air-breakes falling to act, a goods…
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Very good progress is being made with the construction of the cross-country railway. There are now about 90 men engaged. One gang has been…
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On Tuesday a coronial inquiry touching the death of George Wilkie was commenced at the Dubbo Court House, before Mr. W. F. Robertson, P.M. Mr…
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Mr. H. Pearce, of Bourke, has been transferred to a position in the Dubbo railway goods shed, vice Mr. F. Snellgrove, resigned. Mr. Donnolly, goods…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fall From a Motor Car
Mr. E. H. Pahlow, of Saltbush, Mullengudgery, was thrown out of a motor car and very seriously injured. It appears that the back seat of the car…
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A feeling is growing that the line from Dubbo to Werria Creek should join at Dunedoo instead of at Merrygoen. The Turill Railway League has…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Local and General, the Railway
Mr. H. Poarce, porter, Bourke, has been appointed to the goods shed at Dubbo, in place of Mr. F. Suelgrove, who recently resigned…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →[?]Ilgandra. Gilgandra Railway Returns
For the half-year ending 31st December the revenue received at the (Gilgandra railway station amounted to £7511, an increase of £891 over the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Railway Fatallty. How Wilkie Died. the Coronial Inquiry
A Coroner's inquest was opened in the Court Ho[?]se, Dubbo, on Tuesday afternoon, before Mr. W. F.Robertson, to inquire into the circumstances under…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fowl Play. the Motorist's Menace
Toot, toot, too-o-o-t! (writes Ian Hay in the "Daily Mall"). The punctilious motorist, bowling along the open highway at 20 miles an hour, had espied…
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The Coronial inquiry into the circumstances under which George Wilkie (21) met with fatal injuries by being run down by a train at the West…
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"Waterbound macadam roads, which for practically a century have been adequate for traffic, have now, under the new conditions, become obsolete, and…
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Mr. C. J. Shakespeare's motor garage in Lee Street has been leased by Mr. Arthur Baker, of Sydney, who intends to conduct it on the most…
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Mr. Stephens, one of the principal officials of the Department of Public Works, arrived in Dubbo on Monday for the purpose of inspecting the site…
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Senior constable Dolman and Constable Chiner, of Cessock, arrested a man on suspicion of being connected with the robbery of a motor car…
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What on earth is wrong with the telephone to the railway There are scores of people in Dubbo who have to communicate more with the station…
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Mr. Kenneth Holmes, junior goods clerk at Dubbo, has received notification of his forthcoming transfer to Darling Harbour. On his departure,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →By Order of the Czar. Chapter Iv. on the Road to Siberia
Fortunately for Dick Chetwynd's mission he was no stranger to St. Petersburg, nnd he had had some experience of official life in Russia, during both peace and war. He…
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M. Jenatzy, the famous motorist, who was, when in England, nicknamed "The Red Devil," met with a tragic fate. He was one of a party who were big game shooting in…
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