Hampden Bridge Approaches
The Hampden Bridge and its approaches have for some little time been a matter of concern to the Works Committee of the Council and Aid. Hann's…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1905
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Road Tenders
The following tenders for road work were opened at the local Roads Office on Tuesday:—Ditchfield's to Napier, E. T. Rudd, £25 14/, to be reported…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Railway Sensation. Bullet Passes Through a Carriage. Passengers Alarmed But Uninjured
A bullet which crashed through the windows of a railway carriage in the 8.25 train from Parramatta on Tuesday night, when it was midway…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motoring. Dunlop Reliability Race. Sydney
Several hundreds of people assembled at the Town Hall at an early hour this morning to witness the start of the competitors in the Dunlop…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Motor Reliability Contest. Fast Times to Gundagai. Intense Public Interest ABOARD. Stevens' and James' Fine Formances
The Danlop Reliability Motor Contest, the g? event of kind that has ever taken place in Australia, is now in progress. The contest was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Later News. the Vienna-warsaw Railway. Traffic Suspended. Warsaw Rioters Close Factories. Troops Compelled to Surrender Prisoners. General Railway Strike Expected. London, Feb. 23
All the traffic on the Vienna and Warsaw railway has been stopped. The strikers insist on an eight hours day and higher wages…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Motor Contest. the Gundagai Section
Just at present Gundagai is very much interested in the motor contest, which started in Sydney on Tuesday morning, and ends at Melbourne this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Racing
In the motor-car race, Rand and Landgrora (Vic.) met with very serious accidents between Goulburn and Gundagai on Wednesday. Rand's car ran into a bank, and was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Telegrams. the New Railway Rates. Sydney
Under the new railway rates the conveyance of wool from Cootamundra is to be charged at £3/1/1 per ton for scoured, and £2/14/10 per ton for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bad Outlook in Russia. General Strike Feared.—riots.—railway Suspended. London
All traffic on the Vienna-Warsaw railway has been suspended. Attempts to utilise the military as stokers was abandoned after four engines had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Crisis Increasing. Railway Troubles Extending Moscow Callous Concerning Sergius. London
All traffic on the Vienna to Warsaw railway has been superseded. An attempt to utilise the military as stokers has been abandoned after four engines…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Motor Cycle
Mr. R. T. Moore, cycle agent. Wagga, with his accustomed enterprise has this week received a splendid new motor cycle "Sarolea." The guaranteed capacity of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Railway Rates. Important Changes. Wool Rates Increased
Thursday's "Government Gazette" contains a new scale of railway charges, which abolish the border war of freights, and which are the outcome of several…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New South Wales. (By Telegraph.) SYDNEY, Monday. Evading Tramway Fares
During, the past year, over 4000 people travelled on the metropolitan tramways without paying fare. About 40 per cent. of the offenders on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Later News. the Late Grand Duke Sergius Concessions to Railway Strikers. London, Feb. 26
Sixty persons arrested at Moscow in connection with the murder of the Grand Duke Sergius, have been examined without the discovery of a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Panic at Baku. Anxiety at St. Petersburg. Railway Employes Under Martial Law. London, Feb. 27
A panic has occurred at Baku, the troops in the town being insufficient to maintain order. The presence in St. Petersburg of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Advance of the Motor
A[?] an [?]ual factor the great [?] reliability contest from Sydney to Melbourne should have useful results. The contest was not held for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Letter Box at Railway Station
Mr. H.B. Jefferson. Post-master at Wagga, asks us to draw the attention of people using the letter box at the railway station that the fact that letters…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest News Railway Strike Settled. Typhus at Warsaw. London
The Directors of the Warsaw and Vienna railway offered the strikers and increase of wages during 1905, totalling £65,000. a working day of 10 hours and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. Outpost Fighting. Railway Raiders at Work
An artillery duel took place along the Sha[?] line on Wednesday and Thursday last, and there were also several collisions between the outposts of the rival…
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