Social at Cross Roads
A social will be held on Friday evening next in the Cross Roads Hall in aid of the Catholic buzaar to be held next show week. Mrs. Jas. Gormly is…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1908
763 stories in Riverina's papers · page 12 of 39
A Rough Road
The question of the state of the road in Johnstone-street, between Fitzmaurice and Tarcutta streets, recurs with unceasing regularity at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An Early Train. Gundagai Time Table
The time of arrival and departure of Gundagai mail train will be altered next week. The alteration will be an awkward one for Tumut and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →North Shore Bridge. an Engineer's Evidence. People Nervous on North Side Sydney
Mr. Norman Self. a well known civil engineer, giving evidence before the North Shore Bridge Royal Commission, declared that many nervous…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Braybrook Railway Disaster an Engineer's Evidence. Inferior Brakes. Melbourne
A consulting engineer named William Bagley decimal at the Braybrook inquiry to-day that the brakes on the Bendigo train were the most inferior…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Trips Tor Aldermen. Free Railway Travelling. Proposal From Deniliquin
A unique proposal from the Deniliquin Council came before the Wagga Council on Thursday and cause some amusement. The proposal was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Belgian Railway Collision Twenty Six Bodies Recovered. More Under the Wreckage. London, May 22
A collision occurred on the railway near Antwerp, Belgium. Twenty-six bodies have already been extricated and others are pinned under the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wagga-Humuia Railway. MR. R. DONALDSON, M.L.A., in Reply. (To the Editor Wagga "Advertiser.")
Sir,—A recent issue of one of our local papers credits you with the following paragraphs in relation to the Humuia railway. As the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Financial Panic. Another Wall-street Decline. Prosecution of Railway Companies. Heavy Sales. London, May 25
There in another panic in American finance. There were heavy settings and violent declines in Well-street, New York, exchange on Saturday, Stocks…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Drought Railways. Mr. Waddell in the West. Important Announcement
An enthusiastic gathering of pastoralists took place in the Royal Hotel on Friday night on the occasion of the usual wind-up social in connection…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mt. Horeb-tumbarumba Railway
Mr. P. M'Garry, M.L.A., is in receipt of the following communication, dated May 20:—"Public Works Department, Sydney. Sir,—With…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tramway Strike Settled. Referred to Arbitration. Auckland
The Auckland tramway strike is settled and the service resumed. Both parties agreed to all points of issue being referred to a special Arbitration…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wagga-Humula Railway. (To the Editor "Wagga Advertiser.")
Sir,—The letter from Mr. Donaldson, M.L.A., in your paper of last Saturday shows that he is greeting weary of his uncomfortable position of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tramway Employees' Troubles. Crowded Out of Arbitration Court
Last week Messrs. H. Lawton and A. C. Warton, president and secretary respectively of Sydney Tramway Employees' Union, interviewed the Premier (Mr. Wade)…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →News of the Week. Against Private Railways
The Kurri Kurri, N.S.W., progress committee has decided to call a conference of delegates from the progress committees of Weston, Aberdare, Cessnock, and…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →The Motor Fiend
SYDNEY dailies are just now pleading the case—or rather the lack of case— of the motor fiend with great energy. As might be expected, they look at the matter…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →£50 for Plucky Railway Man
For his plucky action in applying, the brakes on a runaway tram of trucks on the Cockburn railway, on May 2, Guard T. Keane was awarded £50 by the South…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →The Railways and Settlement
THE first official Your Book of the Commonwealth of Australia points Out that "A feature of the distribution of the population of Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A New Armoured Motor Car
A recent invention of Mr. Frederick R. Simms, for use in time of war. In general appearance the car may be described as a "mobile conning…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Railway Information
The alteration in the time for the arrival and departure of trains came into operation this week. An addition mail train now runs between…
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