EXPRESS TRAINS AND THE ROTOMAHANA.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 46, 24 February 1908, Page 8

EXPRESS TRAINS AND THE ROTOMAHANA.

«s> TO lIIK EDITOR. Sir, — I would like to call your attention to some want of thought on the j part of th? Manawatu Railway Company. You may have heard, or noticed, that the Rotomahana from Lyttelton does not always arrive in time to connect with the 7.50 a.m. New Plymouth txpiesj. For instance, last Saturday she reached her berth at 7.45 a.m. Passengeis who were going to New Plymouth and Auckland engaged cabs and drove quickly to the station, but of no avail. Just as the train had left these cabs drove up. See what this meant. Board and lodging would have to be taken till Monday morning — two whole days. If unprepared this would be very annoying, especially if you had no friends im the city. Now, slirely, in a case like this tho train could be delayed a little. — I am, etc., THORNDONITE. Wednesday, 24th February, 1908.

In the further tearing of th : darn for comm'ssion in the Supreme Coutt to-day — parti/ reported on tho preceding page — Arthur Biss gave evidence as to the purchase and r ale of the propeity. At io time was tha propeity put iv ths hsnds of agents though tho owre-s were apisroicbod several times with a vid\v to sell. The case had not concluded wh»ii we w >nt to press In reference to a Press Association telegram from Dunedin, published on Saturday, stating that the headquarters of tho Hoyal Exchange Assurance Company ?ie to bo removed to Wellington, and I hat Mr. Cray will be general manager, Mr. O. R. Bendall writes to nay that that stitament is incorrect. Mr. bendall adds that the branch will be under his (Mr. Bendall's) control. The site having been surveyed on which the fog-signalling apparatus is to bs erected at Godley Head, Lyttelton, the Marine Department has now v gang of men at work mailing a track from the top of the hill down to the site of the fog-bigna!. As soon as the track is finished, the site will be prepared, and tho signal erected. The fog-signal is in Wellington awaiting transhipment to Lyttelton. Choral practii o in connection with the v ellingion Mu-ical Union will •con.mcuco iii the tiydney-fitreet schoolroom thie •»vouia»i.