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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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Latest reports from South Africa regarding the progress of the railway strike state that Mr. Hay, general manager at Bloemfontein, expects that the crisis will be…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Recently the Drummoyne branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union wrote to the Drummoyne Progress Association asking it to do what it could to have the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The South African railway strike, according to reports from Johannesburg, is likely to be stillborn. A general cessation of work was to have taken place yesterday. About…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →PRETORIA, Wednesday Evening.--Notices have been posted throughout the Transvaal railways ordering a strike at midnight. A special meeting of the Cabinet discussed…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →At the Central Court, William Greene was charged with driving a motor across the intersection of Park and Elizabeth streets, at a pace faster than six miles an hour. The defendant, who it was stated, travelled at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,--Rev. J; A. Waddell sounds a clarion note of alarm because it is proposed to consider public convenience and revenue necessities in the running of Sunday, tram services. To run the trains during the evening…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Coroner held an Inquest yesterday condoning the death of Henry Turner, who died in the Sydney Hospital on January 3. Dr. Bateman, of the Sydney Hospital, stated…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Formal notification was given by the Tramway Department yesterday that on and after Sunday next the ordinary Sunday time-table will be continued between 7 and 8 o'clock in the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Frederick Dudley Weedon Oatley, the owner of Umeralla station, Cooma," New South Wales, was to-day committed for trial by the City Coroner on a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →WEST MAITLAND, Thursday.--Clarence Roy Bartrop, the driver of the motor car which, on December 20, in High-street, collided with a buggy occupied by Archdeacon Tollis and Miss…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →STOCKINBINGAL, Thursday.--Work on the new Stockinbingal to Forbes railway line has been recommenced, after the holidays, but unless more sleepers come to hand shortly work…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Recently two young men between the ages of 19 one 20 entered a train. Except that they were both athletic types, there was nothing particularly noteworthy about their appearance,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Early yesterday morning a man, residing in Kent-street, was observed to throw off his coat on Pyrmont Bridge and take a hender into Darling Harbor. When he got into the water,…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The condition of the main roads; leading out of Sydney continues to give owners of vehicles much concern. For months there has been a public outcry…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →INTERESTING tests were carried out recently with a new automatic machine gun; in the course of the experiments, the weapon was taken up in a biplane and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A visitor to my don a day or so back asked the, reason why all the American boxers who have visited us during the past five years—with, perhaps, one or two exceptions—have shown a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IF anyone doubts that the facts of everyday life may be more thrilling than tales told in books, let two stories from recent old-world newspapers help him to…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The South, African, railway strike has become more serious, and the situation is worse than during the Ran strikes last July. The developments of the next 24 hours are…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The first overt act of the big industrial war was committed to-day, but happily serious consequence were averted. A ganger discovered three sticks of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE ROAD TO A NEW PROFESSION FOR THE FAIR SEX HAS BEEN OPENED IN LONDON BY MISS AILEEN PRESTON, AN ENTHUSIASTIC LADY MOTORIST, WHO HAS STARTED A MOTORING SCHOOL EXCLUSIVELY FOR WOMEN. THIS PICTURE SHOWS HER INSTRUCTING A PUPIL IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF A NEW CAR…
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