The Coroner (Dr. Cole) has made a arrangements for testing the brakes. The test will be carried out at Sunshine in the course of a day or two, and the conditions ...
Article : 206 words'At the end of platform No. 9 at the Spencer Street Railway Station is a cold and gloomy room usually used for the storage of luggage. In ...
Article : 309 wordsIndications point to a close contest between the President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Winston Churchill) and the Unionist candidate (Mr. W. Joynson ...
Article : 268 wordsProfound regret has been expressed throughout the length and breadth of the British Empire at the death of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (the ex-Prime ...
Article : 350 wordsThe sitting of matters in connection with the terrible railway disaster at Sunshine Station on Easter Monday night is mainly work for the Coroner. Already there are ...
Article : 311 wordsA statement was prepared by the Railway Department showing the weight of the Bendigo train. The figures reveal that the total weight was approximately 340 ...
Article : 184 wordsSince Mr. Tait, speaking on behalf, of the Railway Commissioners, announced that the stationmaster at Sunshine gave the line clear to both Deer Park and ...
Article : 242 wordsThe Coroner (Dr. R. H. Cole, P.M.), who has fixed the date of the inquest for Monday, May 4, will hold the inquest without a jury. Dr. Cole. when interviewed. ...
Article : 257 wordsNames of additional persons who were injured in the disaster continue to filter in to the department. As indicated to-day this notification is tantamount to an ...
Article : 597 wordsAll daylong there was a procession of heartbroken men and women to and from the room where this grim collection was displayed ...
Article : 437 wordsMr. T. W. Russell—who has represented Tyrone South in the House of Commons since 1886, was Secretary to the Local Government Board in the Marquis of ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Irish Federation of Government Workers has issued a circular advising the electors of Dewsbury (the constituency in which the President of the Board of ...
Article : 57 wordsThe station staff at Sunshine consists of three officers and a boy, who looks after the lighting of lamps and other odd jobs of a light character. There is a station ...
Article : 159 wordsThe death of the ex-Prime Minister of England is not without a certain melancholy interest by almost personal character to the residents of this State from the fact that ...
Article : 121 wordsHis Majesty the King, who in his short stay in London between his return from Biarritz and his departure from Copenhagen, called at Downing street to enquire ...
Article : 433 wordsCircumstances of a suggestive character in regard to alleged political jobbery in connection with the street railways and tramways of New York were brought to light ...
Article : 380 wordsThe Premier of South Australia (Mr. Price) is visiting Liverpool. Speaking on Wednesday to the members of the Produce Exchange of that city, he said if the ...
Article : 133 wordsPending the result of the enquiry to be held by the Coroner (Dr. Cole), the Railway Commissioners have, in accordance with the usual official procedure, suspended. ...
Article : 246 wordsThe details of the Yancannia tragedy show that A. E. Schmelzkoff, M. Doyle, and Albert Heddle, recently from Victoria had a row. Heddle was hit and made ...
Article : 98 wordsDriver Leonard Milburn, of the first Bendigo engine, has, since the accident, been confined to his bed, suffering a collapse from the shock. His medical adviser has ...
Article : 70 wordsBreadstuffs.—The estimated visible supply of American wheat is 48,449,000 bushels, compared with 50,098,000 bushels a week ago. The caroes of South Australian, ex the ...
Article : 266 wordsA most important phase of the railway disaster was brought to light to-day. When the accident occurred Milburn, the driver of the first engine of the Bendigo train ...
Article : 696 wordsThe R.M.S. Ormauz arrived at Fremantle at 7 o'clock this morning. Passengers:— For Adelaide—Mrs. Bagot, Miss Milne, the Rev. Dr. Milne, and Messrs. Ragus ...
Article : 156 wordsThe story of the Sunshine tragedy is a sad, saditale. Fresh chapters, full of moving pathos, are daily coming to light. One surrounds the death of Mrs. Margaret ...
Article : 248 wordsThe following list gives the condition of the patients, who are most seriously injured:— Ethel Charlotte Lynch, broken ...
Article : 278 wordsThe Railway Commissioners have taken steps to immediately relieve any distress which the accident may have caused in the death or disablement of breadwinners. ...
Article : 147 wordsThe plumbers' conference was resumed to-day. Mr. Robey (N.S.W.) moved— "That this conference approves of the adoption of a system of registration suitable for ...
Article : 108 wordsWhen the Acting Premier (Hon. A. A. Kirkpatrick) and the Treasurer (Hon. A. H. Peake) leave Adelaide on Saturday afternoon to attend the Premiers' Conference ...
Article : 1,703 wordsIt has been arranged that the first part of the funeral service of the late Sir Henry Camphell-Bannerman will take place at Westminister Abbey on Monday, and the ...
Article : 61 wordsTo-day Mr. L. McClelland (Secretary for Railways) officially visited the various hospitals where the injured passengers are under treatment, and enquired regarding ...
Article : 60 wordsNo further deaths were recorded to-day, and the condition of those patients in the hospitals who are most seriously injured in most cases showed an improvement, and ...
Article : 56 wordsSir William Henry White, who organized the warship building department of Armstrong & Co., and from 1885 to 1902 was director of naval construction and ...
Article : 70 wordsDuring the voyage of the Ormuz, which arrived at Fremantle to-day, Mrs. Sarah Andrews died at sea. The particulars surrounding the incident were extremely ...
Article : 112 wordsMr. Tait has received a letter of sympathy from the Chairman of the Australasian Steamship Owners' Federation. The Acting Lord Mayor has received the ...
Article : 120 wordsThe following telegram from Mr. H. H. Share (Private Secretary to His Excellency the Governor-General) was received by Dr. McKelvie (medical superintendent of the ...
Article : 89 wordsIn the House of Representatives this afternoon the Prime Minister (Mr. Deakin, W.) said that the morning's cablegrams had informal them of the decease of the ...
Article : 652 wordsHad the train from Bendigo and the Ballarat train been running to their schedule times there could have been no disaster at Sunshine on Monday night. The ...
Article : 250 wordsMiss M. Morphett, P.O., Clarendon, S.A., writes:—"We have used Dr. Sheldon's New Discovery for Colds and found it very successful." ...
Article : 50 wordsHarry Kendall Thaw who was acquitted of the murder of Stanford White at the Madison Square Roof Garden Theatre in June 1906, on the ground that he ws ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Footspray police brought to Spencer Street Railway Station three sacks filled with belongings of the injured and dead. The articles comprised gold watches ...
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Article : 44 wordsA resolution of sympathy in connection with the Victorian railway disaster was carried by the Trades and Labour Council last night. ...
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Advertising : 29 wordsIf the Premier. (Mr. Bent) is well enough to attend a meeting of the State Cabinet to-day will ask his colleagues to determine the basis of the constitution of some ...
Article : 244 wordsReference was made to the disaster by Mr. A. J. Noall (Chairman of the Stride Exchange of Melbourne) at the first sitting of the exchange to-day. Mr Noall said he ...
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The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Fri 24 Apr 1908, Page 5
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