MAIL TRAIN DELAYED.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 14016, 22 September 1909, Page 2

MAIL TRAIN DELAY ED.

ACCIDENTS ON THE MAIN TRUNK. A SLIP ON THE LINE. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Sent. 22. The North Island Main Trunk train due here at 4.29 p.m. yesterday, arrived over three hours late awing to a slip on the line at Erua. A mass of earth loosened as the train was approaching and f .ll in the fnwt and side of the engine. •. ; The cow-catcher buckled under t_« engine, "and the mail ran- wail alsa> damaged, whilst the steps of i«m or two carnage* ware bent. On axshwl at Marton there was a further dsa> of half an hour through the iirmnsiitj of transferring mails to- » new postal car. It is reported that several passengen suatained trifling \injuriee.