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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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The final of the Summer Wheel Race is to be run on Monday night, and a glance through the list of competitors shows that a fine race may be anticipated. The limit is 110 yards--a very short one for the final of a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Motor-cycle races are becoming the feature of programmes for country meetings, and in future a £12 handicap for motor-cycles will find a place on all programmes at Newcastle. Other country clubs possesing…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →GOULBURN, Thursday.—Bishop Gallagher; who returned last evening from a visit to the southern portion of his diocese, met Mr. Bent, the Premier of Victoria, at Tocumwal. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The painful stories revealed in a recent correspondence in the London Daily Mail of gambling among the women and girls who frequent some of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mr. William G. Bean writes:—In your issue of Thursday I notice a letter from "Passenger," giving it as his opinion that it was a stone thrown by some boys that was the cause of all…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The two cars tore on through the night, The hedge rows ran past in streaming lines of brown, and the road spun towards thorn like a strip of paper from a tape machine…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Perhaps, dear reader, you have been many miles away from your home and the loved ones there, and you felt homesick to see their dear faces and listen to the music of their voices. Father, mother, brothers,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →About 7.30 a.m. to-day a gang of men were put on to paint the ironwork portions of the swing part of Pynnont Bridge. While they were at work, about 10 minutes to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A remarkable escape from what, might have proved death by drowning or of being crushed to pieces' occurred shortly before 8 o'clock at the Pyrmont bridge. It seems that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The railway earnings for the last quarter of 1905 show an increase over the corresponding period of the previous year of £158,713, and the expenditure an increase of £18,357, tho result…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →One of the most remarkable agricultural experiments of modern times has just been brought to a successful close in Iowa, U.S.A. Under the auspices of the Department of…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →THE Sydney daily papers are lauding the Railway Commissioners on their phenomenal success in wringing out £100,000 in one week…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The annual meeting and prize distribution in connection with the Railway Institute took place last night, Mr. H. M'Lachlan occupying the chair. The chairman pointed out that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CARCOAR, Saturday.—Immediately around Carcoar rabbits are increasing at a rapid rate, and owners state that poisoning is having very little effect on them; but at Flyer's Creek and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The New Baby now "arrives" by motor omnibus! About half-past nine at night, as a Vanguard 'bus was speeding along Maryleboneroad, London, a lady inside passenger felt a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →For the smarter ended December 31, paid Mr. McLachian, at the Railway Institute last night, the Commissioners' report for the half-year showed a bigger advance than on any…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Following the publication in the "Evening News" last Monday of the experience of two "amateur tramps" during a summer holiday walking tour through the Western Mountain…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Into her presence he gaily pranced, A very fat spark, and a bit advanced. With a Samson tread on the earth he trod, He was stayed and gaitered, and fifty odd…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The German Minister of Public Works has issued a rescript to the railway authorities requiring them to prohibit strictly the use of alcohol among railway servants during duty…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Germany possesses a miniature but most usecarrying salt from the salt-mines at Stassfurt. ful railway, unique in its way. Its peculiarity is that its trains hare no drivers. It is used for…
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