AN INAUSPICIOUS OPENING.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13841, 22 December 1908, Page 3

AN INAUSPICIOUS OPENING.

PALMERSTON N.. Dec. 22. The institution of a daily train .service between Wellington and Auckland did not have an auspicious commencement. A train left Wellington at 10.30 last night and was timed to reach Palmerston at 2.25 this morning. At Pukerua, however, progress was barred by a derailed cattle truck and throe and a half hours elapsed • before the train, which carried about 180 passengers, could proceed. It arrived at Palmerston at 6 o'clock. There between twenty and thirty passengers had been 'waiting since 2 o'clock. After a brief stoppage here the train went on.