The late Tramway Employees Strike
In the Assembly on Tuesday night, Mr. Donaldson referred to the "late Btrike" that had promised to be so disastrous. He complimented the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Riverina · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1908
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Motor Record
In a thirty-mile motor race at Brooklands the winning car went at the record speed of 101½ miles per hour…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tram Collision
A tram collided with a waggon in Botany Road last night and killed one of the four horses attached to it. The front ef the tram was damaged. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Death of a Railway Employee
Our railway staff have been sorely-afflicted during the last few weeks. Two of their number have bean on sick leave through strains received while lifting,…
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Mr. O'Dwyer (Savernake) moved, and Mr. Goodwin seconded, — "That in the opinion of this branch the control of all railways in the Commonwealth…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Terrible Motor Disasters. Speed of 110 Miles an Hour. Fall Over an Embankment. Many Lives Lost. London, Aug. 5
The emergency brakes of a motor car at San Francisco snapped, and the car fell over a steep embankment. Mrs. M'Cormick, her daughter, aged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tumbarumba-mount Horeb Railway. the Trial Survey
About thirty representative residence met Mr. Stuart, of the trial survey railway line Mount Horeb to Tumbarumba, at the Globe Hotel, Tumbarumba. Dr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Remarkable Accident. Motorist Thrown Across a River. London
A 90 horse-power Mercedes car, which was running at the rate of 119 miles an hour, at Brooklands, left the track, and shot the occupants 100 feet across the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motoring Extraordinary. Over 100 Miles an Hour. London
A 90 h.p. Napier car won the 30-mile motor race at Brooklands, Weybridge, in Surrey, attaining a speed of 101½ miles an hour—a record. A 15 h.p…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motoring Fatality. Car Topples Over an Enbankment. Four People Killed. London
A terrible motoring accident, attended with fatal consequences, is reported from San Francisco. Whilst descending a hill the emergency…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tramway Victims' Fund
At the request of a number of Unions and sympathisers with the members of the Tramway Union who have been victimised as the result of the recent Strike…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Collapse of Tramway Men's Strike
When THE WORKER went to press last week, the mass meeting of tramway men had just decided to continue the strike against the Railway Commissioners of New…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Visit of the American Fleet. No Alteration of the Programme. Special Railway Arrangements. Racing Fixtures
The rumor circulated per medium of a Section of the country Press, that the American Fleet would arrive in Sydney Harbor three days earlier than…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Comedy. a Smoker’s Ruse. Defeats a Minister
From Paris, on 22nd May, the correspondent of the “Daily Mail” wrote:— An amusing railway carriage joke is being told here at the expense of M…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire at Cross Roads
A fire, which destroyed the Travellers' Rest Hotel at Cross Roads, occurred at an early hour yesterday morning. It appears that the licensee, Mr. David L…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Linking the Railways
A large deputation had a long interview with the Minister for Works, urging the linking of the southern, western, and northern railways. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Cabs
A syndicate has been formed to introduce motor-tax cabs in Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Men to Be Provided For. Billets in the Railway. Unionist Fined. Lenient Treatment. Sydney
It is understood that the Railway Commissioners decoded, in order to at[?] the discontent among the dismissed tramway men, to draft a fairly…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sydney Tramway Trouble "Victimised As the Result of the Strike." 230 Men Affected
At a mass meeting of tramway men in Sydney on Thursday it was resolved that the following payments should be made to those men who hud gone…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Tram Strike. Charge of Assault. Striker and Non-striker. Sydney
At the Police Court to-day, James Mackey was charged with assaulting Thomas Gatehouse on August first. Gatehouse was working in the…
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