EXCITEMENT AT STATION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15365, 9 November 1920, Page 5

EXCITEMENT AT STATION.

- ■ • -T- ' It;RAIN DELAYED: PASSENGERS REAI' TttE BENEFIT./. - Thi? Napier Telegraph of Thursday has the "following reference to the^-delay, 01 :the traiin-.— .'.-'"".' k; ' '. ..'"""' ' ' ■ The Napier-Wellington ..mail train was exactly, one hour, and four minutes- late lh' .leaving this'mbr'ning:.' '•' The .delay was paused by the late '■ ai-rlvfcl of the-Mara-roa from Gisborne, a slow passage" re : Suiting, from the high lied.d wind'. the vessel had 'to contend against coming across the bay. As the steamer's arrivri' was expected at any moment ' the railway authorities- decided to f delay, the' .train a few moments iff" order taßo .'the mail. 1 ;' on' board: The train was "-a fairly ...long' foe,.' bit. most. , of the seati* were *uriocCupied, and (the racegolnii' people from Gisborne: found that the. do lay suited them admirably. On the .other hand some fond farewells which had been' said before 8.45 a.m.. were i;e peated time and time again, but the majority 'of the passengers round their seats growing harder every mlnifte After a wait of 30 minntes most ot Ihe passengers seated in ' the train-: comforted to get out to stretch themselves, and' then the caustic. Tcmarks began "Is tlierc another strike?"'/. "What on earth; is keeping them?" were some of the questions of inquisitive and annoyed passengers. v ... ! '-.However, after waiting for over 50 minutes, a large red car dashed up and discharged five passengers.' 1 Then follow ed other c.ars, all mrtre or less fully laden. One bore a well-known K.C.M.G.' who casually strolled along the. platform until he reached a special compartment labelled "Reserved." Although thfere was' no appearance of the belated mails' there were 'many females in the -next few cars, but they could not' be seen' until '.the collection of hat boxes some of them over three feet by three feet in slate, had been, unloaded One car carried three ladies' and two children, one pram, a large Kewpie which occupied the aforementioned pram, four Immense hat boxes, many rugs and one small hand bag. Hat boxes' seemed' to 'compose by far. the greater portion of the luggage, and ho lady arrived without one— and som* had Ihree. In all .nr| less than 75 people from the steamer ar^ rived in time to board ,the train, but '.a* soon as the engine had commenced to pull the /now heavily laden carriages several more mbtoi'-carg came info" View of the. station. These vehicles had to turn! round and set out for Hastings; in' order, to overtake the tTain, forY whatever would 'happen if all the good people of f?lsbf»rne' did not sec the New. Zealand. Cup decided?. ,--,-. -, •.",: The ,9.9s 'train' y*ns delayed till .10 a.m. and the incoming train from Waipukufriu was kept WMUng ait Earndon ior.'the tnartl Uncross". Wing to' lh-'me arrival of the vboa't in Napier;' the inflil" train this morning' did : riot arrive in -Hastings till 10.17, and left for Wellington' "at 1023, exactly one hour late (writes our Hastings reporter). AY large cr<?wd congregated on the Hastings platform., aiid' many .anxlpus faces were noticed., won-,, derfng if ; %C trSth' - would' be 'in ' tiitfc fo catch :" to-night '£ boat for chtnUcinircT-.. Tli* mail* train Was •.-■stf. ininntes /late Jeny, tpg Wood vi lie for ihe.. 'south. to-'day r , 'The: :.gale and the heavy loading ..prevented. W' lost hour beiriff recovered.