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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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An inquiry was conducted yesterday by the Acting-City Coroner into the circumstances surrounding the death of James Heber Hitchcock (46), as the result of injuries received in…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →In view of the decision of his Honor Judge Scholes, that 7s 6d a day is the very least a man should have under present conditions, the Chief Commissioner for Railways has raised…
Continued on Trove, page 58 →While everybody hopes that another general railway strike in England may be unnecessary, the possibility of a repetition of the scenes of August last cannot be ignored: In my recent…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →According to Mr. R. Price, M.L.A., who has just returned from a tour of the Gloucester electorate, his constituents bitterly complain of the delay in the construction of the North…
Continued on Trove, page 51 →Start of the First Heat-- Queenslander (in the distance) and Kangaroo (near the bottom edge of the picture). The Champion, Mr. Anthony Hordern's 90 h.p. hydroplane Kangaroo. Only two boats completed-- Mr. Anthony Herdern's 90 h.p. hydroplane Kangaroo and Mr. James Clarke's 90 h.p. hydroplane Queenslander. The race was over a distance of 9¾ miles, which in the first heat was covered by Kangaroo in 18min 22 1-5sec, as against Queenslander's time of 26min 25 1-5sec. In the second heat the times were: Kangaroo, 17min 58½sec…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →A few men have been stabbed or scratched by hatpins, and a bylaw has been passed enforcing women to cover the offending points. Hundreds—no, thousands—of women have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →One of the most interested spectators at the recent six-day bicycle curnival on the Sydney Cricket Ground was Mr. R. M'Cullagh, hon. secretary of the League of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →In the French naval paper, "Moniteur de la Flotte," Lorenzo d'Add[?], a well-known Italian authority, projects an extraordinary type of small battleship, which he advocates…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →The Minister for Works has promised Mr. Mark Morton, M.L.a., that the Government will rWsubmIt thW proposal for a railway extension from Bomaderry to Jervis Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →A scheme has been submitted to the Minister for Home Affairs (Mr. O'Malley) by the secretary of the department (Col. Miller) and Mr. H. Deane, Commonwealth consulting engineer,…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →A Venetian evening is to be held at the bungalow clubhouse of the Motor Boat Club of New South Wales, Hose Bay, on Saturday, February 3. Messrs. C. H. Relph and E. C. Griffiths have handed…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →The annual meeting of the Auburn B.C. will be held in Hilisdon's rooms to-morrow evening..A cycling carnival is to he held by the club on the local track early in February…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →The engineers, ironmoulders, and blacksmiths in the locomotive workshops who went on strike last week are still holding daily conferences, and show no inclination to accept the…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →The strike of engineers, boilermakers, and blacksmiths employed at the railway locamo[?]ve workshops is still unsettled. Representatives of the three unions concerned met the…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Sir,—With your kind permission I desire to draw the attention of the tramway authorities to the existing conditions of the tramway line from Bondi Junction to Waverley, and their…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Charles Edward Nicholas, 67, a retired district engineer for Goulburn, in the New South Wales Railway Department, died in the Kirkton Private Hospital, Darlinghurst,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At Tuesday's meeting of the Mosman Progress Association Mr. D. D. Middleton moved that the following letter be forwarded to the Railway Commissioners:— "That members of this association sincerely thank the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At the City Coroner's Court on Tuesday, Mr. H. S. Hawkins (acting city coroner) held an inquest touching the death of James Heber Hitchcock, 46, who was fatally injured by a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The simple model here illustrated and described consists of a car driven by clockwork, balanced by a weight and run on two grooved wheels along a track of stretched wire…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →An electric trolley or telpherage system has been installed in the Victoria station in Manchester Eng., for the transportation of light baggage and parcels between the parcel office and…
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