THE COUNTRY MAILS.

Otago Witness, Issue 925, 21 August 1869, Page 16

THE COUNTRY MAILS.

:• • To' the BdUfr'qf We OtagH WrrsrSs^.', V i Sm— lt is with reluctance that I, am compolled to bring under your notice what may termed a public .grievance, viz : the late arrival of the country, mails, per Coljb and 'tys coaches every evening. The time fixed for their, arrival in Dunedin is, r I belifve, 4.45 p.m. ; but seldom if ever; are they in before 6 p.m. < , - Now, Sir, this is a, matter of great lnconvebienceto myself, and I have no doubt to many others who are similarly Bituated. You will o' Berve, that it oeoasions the loss of one and a half hoar each day, which I submit, to a mercantile man, amounts to Homething considerable attheendof theyear. Itis all very well totalkof the ••badroads," butmay not the horses have somethingtodo with it ? forifc is a fact whioh cannot be denied, that last year, notwithstanding the worse state of the roads, the coaches, ,', were always up to iheir tike ; but perhaps that may be easily accounted for, when we remember, that then there was an opposition coaohto contend, Ca« you, ' therefore, inform me whether the Postmaster has power to remedy this irregularity? if not, has the Postmaster-General ? if he has not I would suggest that a deputation wait upon Messrs Cobb and Co., or that some 'other aotion be taken, so as to insure regularity in the arrival of mails asheretofore.—l am, &c, Beta.