Knocked Off Train Fatal Accident to Fireman BRISBANE
A fatal accident occurred on the goods train which left Roms-street early on Saturday morning for Toowoomba. Fireman J. H. Dalton, 27 was on top of…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1920
6,291 stories in Sydney's papers · page 65 of 250
Motor Launch Hits Pulling Boat
Five boys, aged from about 14 to 17, hired a skiff at Rushcutter's Bay yesterday afternoon and rowed towards Farm Cove. When they reached Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Car Case Further Adjournment
The case in which Herbert Albert Ste4venson 29, taxi driver,is charged with stealing from the per[?] of Gladye Peacock, a leather bag containing £104, the…
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While he was waiting for the horse hunt at Fort Macquarie yesterday evening, George Mitchell, of Hampton Court, Neutral Bay, cranked up the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Cyclist's Thrill Dash Into Harbor Rider Jumps Clear
Through his agility at Fort Macquarie on Saturday George Mitchell, Hampton-avenue, Noutral Bay, missed being taken into the harbor on a motor…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Delays Search for Punctuality Instructions to Staff
"Every effort to secure punctuality must be put forth by those responsible for train working."--Chief Traffic Manager's instruction…
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KALGOORLIE, Sunday.--Officers of the State Railway Department are engaged at present in making a flying survey of a route of about 15 miles between the lakeside and Hampton…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.--There are indications that the discovery of coal at Oaklands, on the southern border of New South Wales, may be of value to the Victorian railways…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Advance Linking Up the Southern and South Coast. Systems. Under Consideration
At a meeting of representatives of the local government areas from Bull to the Shoalhaven, held at Kiama (N.S.W.) last week, it was decided that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Land Settlement and Railways Soldier-settlers Reappraising the Blocks in the Bathurst District. Mr. Ashpord's Statement
In reply to complaints of delay in the promised reappraisement of the blocks on the soldiers' settlement at Mon[?]lla and Macquarie Vale, both…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Longueville Motor 'Bus Residents Want Subsidy
Alderman Bradley last night introduced to the Lane Cove Council a deputation of ratepayers from the Central and West wards for the purpose of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tram Guard Assaulted Man Fined £10
Earl Coulter, 21, a carter, pleaded guilty yesterday, at the North Sydney Police Court to a charge of assaulting Oscar Lewis Issac, a tram…
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WELLINGTON, N.Z., Monday. -- Several passengers were injured, two being admitted to hospital, and carriages were damaged in a railway accident which occurred on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Widening Military Road
There was considerable diversity of opinion among the North Sydney aldermen last night regarding the intention of the local authorities to widen Military Road…
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The District Coroner (Mr. H. Richardson Clark) held an inquest at the Parramatta Courthouse on Friday, touching the death of a man named William Hayes, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Disturbance in Tram Man's Jaw Fractured
A charge of assaulting Charles Butler, and occasioning him actual bodily harm, was preferred against John Stenhouse, 20, a laborer, at the Central Police Court…
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"This man is well known to us, and is one of the worst impostors in Sydney" said inspector M[?]nkey at the Central Police Court this morning, when…
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As the result of the shooting affray in a tram near Grace Brothers, on March 4, Walter Christopher Culien, 29 chauffeur, was charged at the Central Police…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motoring News Two Days' Reliability Trial
The members of the Automobile Club of Australia are to have a two days' reliability trial on April 16 and 17. The roads and tours committee will announce the course about a week…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Supreme Court. Banco Jury Court. (Before Sir Win. Cullen, C.J., and jury.) a Foreman's Peril. Broadfoot v Railway Commissioners
The plaintiff, Adam Byoadfoot, formerly employed in the railway works at Honeysuckle Point as a working blacksmith's foreman, sued the Railway Commissioners to…
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