CORRESPONDENCE.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12498, 8 May 1906, Page 8

CORRESPONDENCE.

! SUNDAY TRAVELLING. > TO THE UDITOB OF "THJt PJIESS." Sir, —Feeling sure that mj Ja»l> e» / peiicnce- is not unique, I send you % ■ description, the oau.w being aPi*"*"*: It -mas imperative- that I should men • I an invalid Jadv jw*<jnger arriving et ' Lyttelton by s*.s. Pateeua, on Sunday. ■ No tram left l\ti,panui to catch the only - morning train to Port at half-past" », so I had 1o drive (tio>:e without traps ■ must walk). At Lyttelton I ivae in- '■ formed tho Pateena would not β-rnte • till about 12 oclock; eho ultimately arrivid noan-r 1 o'clock. Tlu> fitoamer t cairo m iVaiitifully, and oould l«ve lwrthwl in a tew miniitte, but s>lio must be mi mod. How long this oi»erati«n i took othoih know. The turning mi^' 1 har« been done lvlwn «-hr> loft tbe wharf, by revtihini; towards tho docif» a> othor ht-naincrs tn-anago it. Cβ* ! gangway was loworwl, and we wero i politely* told to look on while tio pefr ' sengiTs ioisun-ly cradled on to _toe * v,i:;:ri. Patio.nw is a grand thing» i but two gangways w mild liolp matters." ■ ' By the -timo'th*' Ina-a-t- was trajisfcin'irAl to the tiain—th<« latter had l»en ■ j alnwt to Pißron Bay to rcToi-se—tbe 1 i incoming tisiiu had brvn waited for, 1 etc.; hunger added to cur mfcarioe. Arrived at Christchureh station 1 joir.«l in the fcramble- for ana w took wiiat 1 thought was our. Surely, there- should bt» .v tickrt dieck, tho I J «mw a.s on bicycle-.. To our intense ; iiirpri-e and p!c«i>»re, « I'apanui tram waitl<l ft-r u> cinsitic. vi.d We reached l.tjiii.- aboift Iwli-past 2. Wit Lout more Sand.nv wcik, 1 \ ru-.t that an\-ilteration I ran Ik' in;;:!:' tor the '/oivolit of thoM> - I j win) have to meet pa-i-: .Miners.—^cui*, ■i CtC "* AXII-ROI. ; i

THE PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1906.