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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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A SENSATIONAL encounter between police and Customs officers and two supposed opium smugglers took place at Balmain shortly before 3 o'clock on Thursday morning lat. Sixteen shots were fired without effect at the supposed sinngglers, but they succeeded in making their escape in a powerful sunbeam motor car later in the morning the car was found abandoned in Boarke-street. Waterloo…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Charles John Thompson, aged 75, of Abercrombie-street, city, who was knocked down by a tram in Central-square, yesterday, and had to remain under the car until it had been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A tram bound for Milson's Point ran into an obstruction in Miller-street, North Sydney, this afternoon, and swerved across tho opposite rails…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A head-on collision between a motor-cycle with a side-car attached and a taxi-cab occurred last night at the corner of Bondi Road and Waverley Street, Bondi…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →At a meeting of the works committee of the City Council yesterday afternoon it was decided to refer to the city surveyor for report a proposal by Aid. Sir Allen Taylor to purchase…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Charles John Thompson, aged 75, was crossing George Street, opposite the Central Railway Station, yesterday morning, when he was knocked down by a tram going to Circular…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A meeting was held ait the Coreen public hall of farmers, landholders, and others interested in the extension of the Henty-Billabong Creek railway to Ringwood. A league was…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →It has been computed that 77 per cent. of the world's motor cars are to be found within the borders of the United States of America. Every fifth family in that country now owns…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →In addition to a large number of motor vehicles, a large quantity of miscellaneous motor parts were included in a sale of war-worn material recently held in Paris by the French…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →The current number of "Motor Traction" contains the 12th annual traffic census (of London), taken by that journal on September 17 last at Edgware-road. The motor-bus…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →There is a number of things to be remembered, and acted upon by every rider who wishes to get the best results from his tyres, says the Dunlop Rubber Company. First of all, the…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →There is every indication that with the first contingent of the great American "liberty army'' to go to France, there will be no fewer than 50,000 motor cycles. These machines will…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →A Swiss named Albert Wietlisbach was fixed 20s and costs at the Hornsby police Court yesterday for having failed to register as an alten. It was stated by constable Dole that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Somebody has said that Sydney is protected against invasion from the west by the Parramatta-road. It appears that the Main Western-road is going to bocome a more…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The urgent need of an improved tram service to Bondi beach was discussed at Tuesday night's meeting of the Waverley Council. The service is said to be inadequate, and does…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr Coobran M.L.A., has received the following letter from the Superintendent of Tramways— "With regard to your call at this office on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dear Worker,— Recently there appeared before the Industrial Court a union styled the United Crown and Railway Union, purporting to…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →The New Zealanders included in list "Z" will return from Liverpool this morning, and the Queenslands on the same list will also returna and leave by a special train for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The monument which has been erected in the Dowling-street Tramway Depot garden by the members of the staff in memory of their comrades who have fallen in the war…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The overhead tramway wire in Castlereagh-street snapped near Hunter-street about 3.30 this afternoon and dislocated the tram traffic for an hour…
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