At half-past 11 o'clock yesterday morning an electric carriage became derailed while shunting a Hurstbridge goods train at Heidelberg station. The derailed carriage, in which there were no passengers, crashed against an overhead gear standard, [?]ouled the overhead gear, and blocked the entrance to the station on the Melbourne side. The derailed vehicle is shown being lifted back into position by the Railways department's breakdown crane. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 71 wordsRail services between [?]va[?] and Heidelberg were suspended for more than three hours yesterday as a result of the derailment of an electric car used for shunting ...
Article : 600 wordsCaught in the hull of the P. and O. branch line steamer Barrabool, which was passing up the river to a berth in Victoria Dock early yesterday morning, one of ...
Article : 574 wordsSuggesting that Australia should avail itself of the advantages provided by the free commercial zone in Salonika, Mr. Polyvios P. L[?]kos, a Greek journalist, at ...
Article : 335 wordsSir Eric Geddes, a former British Cabinet Minister, and now chairman of directors of Imperial Airways Ltd. and chairman of the Dunlop Rubber Co., arrived in Melbourne yesterday on a hurried business visit. At the station on his arrival:—Left to right: Sir John Grice, Sir Eric Geddes, Mr. E. L. Baillle[?], and Mr. F. G. Hughes. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 59 wordsFollowing a fire which occurred in Carlets Pty. Ltd., Elizabeth street, Melbourne, on July 22, 1928, the firm has brought an action claiming money under as insurance ...
Article : 487 wordsThe headway of the derailed carriage at H[?]delberg was stopped just in time to prevent its crashing into the inspection pit, shown in the foreground. Note the list on the vehicle and the buckled and displaced rail. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 40 wordsThe Frankston Council having asked the State Government to contribute £3,000 towards the east of installing pumping plant at Carrum to flush the Kananook Creek with sea water and otherwise improve it, the Premier[?] (Sir William McPherson), accompanied by the Minister for Works (Mr. Chandler), conferred with members of the Frankston Council yesterday. The two Ministers with members of the council. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 65 wordsThe woman for whose l[?]ly the police have been dragging the Moonee Ponds Creek for two days was found yesterday afternoon to be safe. Fears had been roused ...
Article : 108 wordsAn application for [?]n inter[?]tory injunction in a Supreme Court action, in which the South Melbourne and Albert Park Coffee Palace Co. Ltd., of Bridport street, Albert Park, Henry H. J. ...
Article : 346 words—(H. Kris[?]hock, photo.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 83 wordsWhen a revolver without a magazine was produced at the City Court on Monday as an exhibit in the prosecution of Morris Roe, a young man, who was charged with having carried a ...
Article : 224 wordsThomas Dowling, aged 2[?] years, of Horace street, Malvern, was charged at the Malvern Court on Monday, with having, on January 28, unlawfully assaulted [?] father, Thomas Edward ...
Article : 200 wordsThe following appointments in the Royal Australian Navy were announced by the Minister for Defence (Sir William Glasgow):— ...
Article : 243 wordsFollowing a request by the Sandringham Council to be allowed to fence in the beach oval between Sandringham and Hampton for a football ground, the Minister for Lands (Mr. Angus) inspected the locality on Saturday. The photograph shows the oval around which it is proposed to erect a six-foot fence. In the foreground is Beach road, and beyond the oval is the beach. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 70 wordsAt a meeting of the board of management of the Royal Victorian [?]te for the Blind, St. Kilda road, it was announced that the Governor (Lord Somers) had [?]ed to open the institute's ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 5 Feb 1929, Page 5
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