FROM THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam." MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1864.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19120, 14 March 1924, Page 6

FROM THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam." MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1864.

In an unostentatious manner, and probably unknown to more than a few hundred people, a very important problem has been worked out, —the opening up of facilities for passenger traffico by land from the southernmost part of the Middle Island to two-thirds of the distance of its northern trending. A person may now get into a couch at Christchurch, and with one or two chances, owing to the line not being all in the hands of one proprietorship, ride the whole way to the Bluff. The journey is not very rapid, and we do not know the cost; but at any rate a great feat is achieved in the breaking down of the barriers that have hitherto separated the Provinces through the difficulties of land communication between their principal towns.

Wo look upon it as only “the beginning of the end.’’ We trust that the lime is not far distant when the construction of a railway from end to end of the Middle Island will be decided on. The through journey by coach from Southland to Christchurch would have been a more amazing project to the simple aspirations of the early settlors than that of a railway to the inhabitants of the present day. What a serious undertaking a ride from Dunedin to Oamaru was deemed a few years ago; and to have driven would have been simply impossible. But now the coach rolls along the road three times a week. . .

A meeting of school-teachers was held on Saturday alternoon, at the Athenaeum, for the purpose of taking preliminary steps for the formation of an Association of the School Teachers of Otago. . . . Mr Park, of the .South District School, was called to the chair; and, after a short, conversation, a resolution was unanimously adopted to form an Association with the title before mentioned. . . .

SIXTY YEARS AGO.