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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1248, 30 January 1896, Page 39

During the Christmas holidays, or, to bo more precise, from the 18th December till the 2nd January last, 50,000 more passengers were carried on the Government railways than were carried in the corresponding period of the previous year, and at the same time the revenue from fares was JB2OOO less. That is a considerable concession in the cheapening of excursion rates, for 50,000 more passengers means 100 additional trains. Excursion trains were run to the agricultural shows at Hamilton, Auckland, Napier, Palmerston North, Christchurch, Dunedin and Invercargill, and 27,445 passengers travelled by rail to these shows as against 23,208 in the preceding year. There was therefore an increase of 4000 passengers, but ,£137 le*3 money was taken. The public reaped the advantage. It is satisfactory to iearn that, in spite of all these concessions, the railway revenue is fully up to the estimate, and that there is every reason to anticipate a favourable result vub "the end of the financial year. With reference to the Feildjaig poisoning case, Prote«3or Biokerfcon, of Christchurch, has analysed a sample of the raspberrv vinegar, and reports that it is harmless ihis leaves *ae casa as. great a mystery aa