Fowl Play. the Motorist's Menace
Toot, toot, too-o-o-t! (writes Ian Hay in the "Daily Mail"). The punctilious motorist, bowling along the open highway at 20 miles an hour, had espied…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Riverina · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1914
1,309 stories in Riverina's papers · page 7 of 66
Motor Tours Abound Sydney
Though Sydney is probably as well catered for as any other large city as regards train, tram, and ferry services, also cabs, motor cars, and taxi-cabs,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Inefficient Railways. Speeding-up System Required. the Government's Problem
The difficulty in regard to the inadequacy of railway facilities for handling each year's produce has come to be regarded, by the general…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Muller Road Train
Wegga people have been wondering as to the time of arrival here of the Muller road train, which was reported recently as conveying a load of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Train That Failed
Last Saturday the town was on the tip-toe of expectation, us a road train that had left. Melbourne the previous Sunday, and which was due on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local and General News Beckwith Street Bridge Temporarily Closed
The contractor on the sewerage works advised the Council on Thursday evening that in carrying out the portion of the sewerage works (rising…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Lloyd George. Extreme Hatred Aroused. Threat to Wreck Train. London
Mr. Lloyd George has received a letter from Glasgow in which the writer threatened to wreck the express train by which Mr. Lloyd…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wagga Tumbarumba Railway
A Tumbarumba message says.—Mr. Drew, chief timber inspector of the Works Department, is here choosing sites for depots for sleepers for the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Boxer Mehegan's Nerves a Tram Accident. Sydney
Acting on medical advice, Hughie Mehegan is taking six months' rest from boxing. He wil put in time touring the country in his motor car…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Burning Tunnel. Train Dashed into it. LONDON
It is reported that a train with 41 passengers on board ran into a burning tunnel in Mexico, and the iives of all were lost…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mexican Train Outrage. Only Charred Remains Found. London
When the rescue train reached the tunnel which had been burned by the bandit Costello, and in which a train was destroyed, nothing but charred…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Terrible Accident. Childs Arm Cut off by Passing Train. MELBOURNE
Alice Morris, aged ten, while returning from a Sunday school picnic at Brighton, Vic, had her head out of the window of a train…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Strangling the Railways
Some of the figures which have been adduced to show the progress made by the New South Wales railways during the Commissionership of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Car Burned
Last week Mr. Shepherd, of Tumbarumba bad the misfortune to lose bis motor car by fire. Running shore cl petrol, be mixed kerosene with it. He…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Collision in Sydney Harbor Motor Launch Sunk. Occupants Saved. Sydney, Monday Night
The ferry boat Lady Rawson ran down a motor launch in the middle of the borbor to-night. The letter was sunk, and five occupants thrown into…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wrecked By Lightning. Railway Station and Signals. Stationmaster's Narrow Escape. Sydney
The office on the railway station at Cowan, and the electrical block signalling instruments, were wrecked by lightning on Saturday last. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rand Deportations. Conspiracy Charges Repudiated. the Durban Railway Strikers. Capetown
Of the railway men at Durban who struck recently, 3600 have been reinstated at reduced wages, and 126 were dismissed from the service…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Parrot Dealer Filled. Birds' Long Train Journey. Sydney
Peter Sl[?]y, of Byrock, was fined 20/. will £5 odd costs and witness' expenses, in default two months' imprisonment, at the police court…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →By Order of the Czar Chapter Iv. on the Road to Siberia
Fortunately for Dick Chetwynd's mission he was no stranger to St. Petersburg, and he had had some experience of official life in Russia, during both peace and war. He…
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