Explosion. Motor Launch on Fire
Yesterday afternoon a sensation was caused in Lavender Bay, near the baths, when flames shot up from a motor launch in which a parly of about 16 persons was about to leave for…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1915
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Motor Lorries. Additional Funds Needed. Nearly £3000 in Hand
The members of the executive committee of the Red Cross Society are grateful for the generous response that has been made to the appeal for funds for motor lorries for use at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Railway Management. Protest From Bathurst. Bathurst
"No Government institution is so badly managed as the railway," said Mr. B. Cutler, in moving, at the farmers and se[?]lers' meeting, "that this branch of the association make…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Scow Tramp in Trouble Again
Last evening the scow Tramp, while passing through the Heads inward bound, missed stays, and was driven on to North Head, where she now lies in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Overloaded Trams
Kindly give me space to protest about the way the trams are overloaded on the M'Mahon's Point-Willoughby line, and the inability of the conductors to collect fares…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Railway Men. Conference Proposals
The 24th annual conference of the Amalgamated Railway and Tramway, Association will be held in Sydney on February 15. Among the items on the agenda paper is a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Transcontinental Railway
MELBOURNE, Saturday. -- The Deportment of Home Affairs has accepted tenders for the supply of the following in connection with the Trans-Continental railway: -- Stool hopper…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Farmers and the Railways
BATHURST, Saturday. -- The local branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association to-day carried an emphatic motion of protest against the management of the New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Road Train. Novel Sight. Hay
Interest was caused in Hay to-day by the appearance of a motor road train in the principal street, on the way from Droongla station to the Echuca railway, loaded with wool…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Train and Cart Collisions. Two Narrow Escapes
A narrow escape from death occurred at Crabbe's Creek. Tweed River, on Saturday morning. A man named Jones and his son were driving across a lever…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Roads. Mr. Cook at the Crossways. Mr. Hughes's Rejoinder
"I have noticed Mr. Cook's remarks at the opening of the Liberal Institute at Parramatta," said the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Miners Leave Train. Reason for South Coast Stoppage. Clifton
The Coal Cliff Colliery remained idle on Monday, in consequence of the miners and wheelers absenting themselves from work. It is reported that the employees, most of who m travel by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tram Block Near the Railway
The gear-box on tram No. 197, which left the railway for Circular Quay at two minutes to 7 o'clock, this morning, dropped at the intersection of Hay and Castlereagh streets, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Horse Talk How to Train a Racehorse. Australian Methods. All Rights Reserved. (Continued from our last Tuesday's issue). Chapter Ix. Important Training Items. Working on a Full Stomach
A great deal of damage is sometimes done by galloping a horse on a full stomach, and, perhaps, tho greatest evil resulting from this treatment is…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fatal Motor Accident
William Gobbles, [?] a plasterer, who [?] in Lehester-street paddington, died in Sydney Hospital this afternoon from a fractured [?] received on January in through being knocked…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Patbol Furt Intro[?] for [?] in Sydney
This is the arst vehicle at the kind to be used is Australia, as was the mater prices van, which daily conveys [?] from police statices to the goal. The petrol [?] is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Free Railway Passes
"Neceseity" writes:— We learn daily of the inconvenience caused to the public by the curtailing of the train and tram services, and are informed that this…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Service Supper-annuation Board. £75,000 in Pensions
During the three months ended December 31. 1914 the board [?] is pensions, amounting to £1914 16s per annum to retired officers ever 60 years of age. Thirteen pensions,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Lorries for the Front. a Pr[?] to the Appeal
"The Red Cross appeal for motor lorries is meeting with, a generous response," said Mr. Sherbon, officer in charge of rifle reserves in Sydney on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Knocked Down by a Tram
Alice McDowell, aged fifty-seven years, living at Marrickville, Sydney, while crossing King-street, Newtown, was knocked down by…
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