A NOVEL COAOH.

Evening Post, Volume LII, Issue 155, 21 November 1896, Page 2

A NOVEL COAOH.

* Bather a novelty in the way of ooaohes turned up one morning in Forbes, New South Wales, a week ago (says the local paper) . There had been a heavy fog during the night, and the through coach from Condobolin, driven for Cobb and Company by Mr. P. Byrnes, the well-known whip, met with a mishap during the trip. How the driver managed to steer his team at all throngb the darkness, doubtedly increased by the fog, is somewhat of a mystery. However, the coach travelled the fir«t fifty miles all right, but there the front wheels collapsed, and the redoubtable "Faddy" was in a mental as well as an atmospherical fog. He had only one male passenger with him, and a large number of mail-bags and parcel-baskets, and he set hu wits to work how best to deliver his cargo in Forbes in good time, for he had no intention of stay.ing on the road. Soon his plan of action was hit upon. Producing his wrench, he quickly unscrewed the foreoarriage of the coach and took away the pole and the front axle ; then he took off the hind wheels of the coach, pnt them on the front axle, and at once had an improvised, though rather primitive, kind of sulky. He strapped his parcel-basktts on to the axle, put the mailbags on top of them, harnessed up his three horses, and then he and bis passenger took their seats on top of all, and drove on to Forbes, leaving the broken front wheels and body of the coach on the roadside. The arrival of the turn-out, only an hour late, caused some little amusement in Forbes, and is known locally as "The Snowy River Mail Bervice." Perhaps nobody other than a man of Irish descent would have hit upon such a contrivance, and the ingenious " Paddy " has came in for a round of congratulations for his " outeneM.*'