Cycling & Motoring Notes
Iver Lawson, the crack American cyclist, who bas been racing in the Commonwealth for the past three or four months, left for America by the s.s…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1906
235 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 12
The Czar's Movements. Fast Motor-boat Sent to St. Petersburg
By special arrangement with the Russian Embassy, a well-known London company is despatching a motor-boat to St. Petersburg…
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Ceylon and the Straits Settlements are making headway in the industry of growing rubber and hope to compete successfully with the best products of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another Train Mystery. Unknown Woman's Leap
A mysterious railway tragedy was investigated by the Burton-on-Trent Coroner yesterday, and left unsolved. On Monday evening, the 27th…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Rush to London. Tramps and Workless
Mr J. S. Fletcher’s By the Waters of Babylon.” the pathetic story of a Yorkshire couple cal[?]ous migration to London to seek the streets…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bungendore-captain's Flat Road
With reference to a letter forwarded to him from Mr. Richard Byron, of Bungendore, urging repair of Neal's Creek road, Mr. O'Sullivan, M.L,A.,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tram Collision
Two trams collided in Pitt-street, near the Railway Station, this morning. Four persons were injured, one rather seriously. Something of a coincidence…
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A VERY fine acceptance has been received by the promoters of the "Sydney Thousand" Wheel Race to be decided in Sydney next month. All told, one…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Road Tenders
THE following are the lowest tenders received for various road contracts within the district :—Queanbeyan to Gudgenby, at Naas, E. Robertson, £37 1s 6d; Old Burra…
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A very line acceptance has been received by the promoters of the “Sydney Thousand” Wheel Race, to be decided in Sydney this month. All told, 118 riders…
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“Marie Studholme,” say the “Royal magazine.” “Is a motorist and in her own garden is a terror to caterpillars when they are eating.” We conies that there is something…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A King’s Motor Car. an Cutspoken Mayor
King Alfonso’s motor-car having been recently damaged by on electric tramway car in Madrid, orders were given for the persecution of the tramway…
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"Marie Studholme," say the "Royal Magazine," "Is a motorist. and in her own garden is a terror to caterpillars when they are eating." We confess that there is something…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Didn't Miss the Train
Some time since two merry sons from the land of the shamrock were walking down a railroad track of one of the suburban lines, and so interested were they in an animated…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Correspondence. Carruthers Starving the Road Vote. to the Editor
SIR,—Having made a flying visit at the beginning of the week to Gunning, Gundaroo, and Queanbeyan, I noticed posted everywhere about, bills by Mr. Hungerford the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Self-propelled Army. New Use for Omni-bus Motors
An officer in the R.F.A. writes in the “Daily Mail,”— Circumstances have arisen within recent years which make-it obvious…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Canada's New Railway. Another Great Transcontinental Line
An engineering work of great importance has been undertaken by the enterprising people of the Dominion. A new railway nearly 4,000 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Correspondence. Starving the Road Vote. to the Editor
SIR,—I have to thank you for publishing my letter in your last issue, but I must ask you to correct two very serious mistakes you have made in the figures I gave you. First,…
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THE Premier has written the following minute, which was formally approved by the Cabinet on Monday:—"I think that the splendid rainfall which has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thieves’ Luxury. Their Own Motor Cars
The “Express” correspondent wrote from Paris on the 21st December:— A gang of fifteen burglars, who lived in great luxury in a house in its own…
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