RAILWAY MISMANAGEMENT.

Western Star, Issue 962, 4 July 1885, Page 2

RAILWAY MISMANAGEMENT.

j ' ■''•• -TO THfl BDITOB.) ■•■■>,!?!. 'J.V ]!').;!« ]

.. Si it,—(Anyone who has, travelled .by rail ~ between Rivorton and Dunedin'can 'heartily''' c;irroboi'at3 the statements ,of i.'', Traveller)!,' whose letler you .reprint, from .the " Daily Times." Ido no'i' believe that at any rail way .junction in New IZealand travellers; meeft with so little attention and so much annoyance as at Invercargih. 'Just btie example' ! ''p show the supreme impudenceof aha iivulwaV;.'" serI tyiiuts" there., J was ti passenger hy the morning train from Rivertonto Dunedin; ufElm Rivorton train was even slower .than usual, and only 1 a fdw minutes remained to changti carriages. I had three parcels; ;in ; :the van plainly addressed "Dunedin," and had the porters known their duty i need not havi? troubled myself about these, knowing they . . would be put aboard the Dunedin'train oefbi f o'' ! ' > - if. started. But I had learnt, by'experience that, these men could not bo depended on, to 1 looked after the parrels myself, carrying two of ihom to the Dune-din guard's van. When . I rbtwraed for t'>e other parcel it 'had disap*' Sl ' poared and I concluded* that" for: once the porter had been guilty of doing something in Iho way of assistance, eo took my soat in the carriage. A moment's reflection, .though, showed me the stupidity of supposing thutths' ' parcel had been attended to, and I looked into the Dunedin van to make sure. Of course it wasn't there, the starting bell was ringing, the parcel was not on the platform either; but happy thought! a friond was seen coming >,f rushing with the parcel in his arms. . By inspiration he had been prompted to look in the parcels' oifiecand found it there among "Lost Parcels." One might write a big book of similar "experiences."—l am, &cv [*j«i