SYDNEY TRAM SMASH
FREDERIC HARRISON
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, January 3. (Received January 3, at 10.30 a.m.) The Board of Inquiry into Saturday's tram 6mash find that it was caused by the disablement of the brake gear, but could easily have been averted if the driver had applied the current promptly. [The car ran down the King street hill and collided with another near George street, Fourteen people were- injured so as to requir-? hospital treatment.]
ON IMPERIAL TOPICS. Press Anociation—By Tslegrapli-Copyrijhk. LONDON, January 2. (Received January 3. at 8 a.m.) Frederic Harrison, in his address to the Posiiivist Society, s-aid that the greatest illusion of the time was the prospect of Imperial defence bv an "All-England Joint Stcck Company (Unlimited Liability)," with an Imperial Budget- wherein colonials fixed the cost of the British workmen's food* National defence was their most urgent duty, but compulsory service would cause civb. war.
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Evening Star, Issue 15073, 3 January 1913, Page 6
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