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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1903

160 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 4 of 8

The Railway Strike

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 15 May 1903 · page 2

THE Melbourne State Parliament was opened on Wednesday afternoon in the Exhibition Building by His Excellency Governor Clarke for the extraordinary…

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Latest Wires Sydney, Thursday The Railway Strike

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 15 May 1903 · page 2

The Victorian Parliament met yesterday afternoon and proceeded straight away to business and continued sitting all night and resumed its sitting this afternoon…

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Victorian Railway Strike Melbourne

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 15 May 1903 · page 2

The general impression among railway men at Spencer-street is that the signalmen will not go out on strike and everybody there is very confident that the…

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The Victorian Railway Strike

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 16 May 1903 · page 2

There was a rush of applicants for employment at Spencer-street on Tuesday. Over 700 applications are said to have been received, and 200 of them were dealt with in the locomotive branch…

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The Railway Strike. Fresh Developments

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 16 May 1903 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The State Parliament was opened on Wednesday afternoon for the extraordinary question, to deal with the railway crisis. The speech was the…

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Victorian Railway Strike, Melbourne

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 19 May 1903 · page 3

The collapse of the strike furnishes features of greater dramatic interest than the strike itself At the headquarters of the Engine-Drivers…

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The Victorian Railway Strike

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 19 May 1903 · page 2

Almost without exception, the news commenting on the Victorian strike, praise Mr. Irvine, and condemn the attitude of the workers…

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London Trams

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 19 May 1903 · page 2

London’s first electric tramway, from Westminster to Tooting, a distance of eight miles, was formally opened today with much ceremony…

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The Railway Strike

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 20 May 1903 · page 2

The news of the termination of the strike caused unbounded satisfaction everywhere. The end of the strike was brought about by the earnest intercession of Sir A. Peacock, Mr. Frank Madden, and…

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Notes and Comments the Railway Strike

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 22 May 1903 · page 2

According to the ethics of pure collectivism the first claim on the loyalty and service of the individual comes from the community as a whole. He must be loyal,…

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The Glenmore-road Tragedy

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 23 May 1903 · page 2

Hardly had the Central Criminal Court at Dar linghurst become cleared of the dense crow the had assembled to witness the final scene in the tria of Digby Grand an Henry Jones than it was again…

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The Late Railway Strike

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 23 May 1903 · page 2

In the Victorian Legislative Assembly on Tuesday the Premier, on the motion for the resumption of the debate od the second reading of the Strike Suppression Bill, said that since the bill been…

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Victorian Railway Retrenchment

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 29 May 1903 · page 2

THE drastic reductions in the normal train service which followed the strike have evoked pretests from some of the country centres most affected. Generally speaking,…

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Queensland Railway Policy

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 29 May 1903 · page 2

Mr. Philp, Premier of Queensland, speaking at Government Cairns, said his Government intended offering every facility for private companies building railways. The…

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The Railway Revenue

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 9 June 1903 · page 2

The fact that the rail way and tramway revenue for May showed a decrease of £26,646 when compared with the corresponding mouth of last year has caused some…

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Road Work Begging

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 12 June 1903 · page 4

The Goulburn “Herald” states that tenders are again invited for work on the Crookwell to Bigga road (portion of the Snowy Mount deviation) about thirty…

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To School by Motor-car

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 12 June 1903 · page 6

Parisians are sending their children to school by motor-car nowadays; at least, the 'Si[?]cle' tells us that the motor-car has been experimentally in use for that…

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Motoring

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 19 June 1903 · page 2

Loraine and Barrow have died from the effects of the [?] Madrid motor race. While driving eighty miles per hour they can into a tree to avoid a dog…

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A motor for [?]

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 19 June 1903 · page 1

At least one large firm manufacturing dynamos and motors is, says the American Engineer, at work upon a motor that will run at a speed of 10,000…

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A Queensland Railway Smash

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 20 June 1903 · page 2

A serous railway accident occurred at Ingham, on Tuesday morning to a train travelling from Lucinda to Ingham. When approaching the Palm Creek bridge connecting East Ingham with…

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