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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3059, 16 April 1881, Page 2

The Government are apparently determined not to encourage persons to travel on the Napier section of the New Zealand railways, and those who hazard a journey do so at the peril of t_._ir comfort. Visitors from other provinces say the Napier line is the worst managed in the colony, and we should not be surprised if it is. To a creeping pace and unpunctuality we have become accustomed; against interminable delays at the several stations to shunt about goods' trucks we have protested in vain. Some of tbe features ot our railway are too dirty to speak about. But to show the general carelessness displayed we will take the filters and the enamelled iron cups at tbe stations. Can anything be nastier? Is it likely that any lady will drink out of a vessel that has been probably used twenty times in the day by Maoris and all comers? What would a glass tumblei look like used in the same way without washing? Then compare the refreshment room (?) at Te Aute with the refreshment rooms on other lines. We ask, would any one outside Hawke's Bay Bilently submit to rest satisfied with such an arrangement ? Neither tea nor coffee, neither a biscuit nor a glass of lemonade can be reckoned on there. Only intoxicating liquors, were to be had on Thursday evening at a small bar in a general scramble in the vain hope of getting something for the refreshment of a lady. It is altogether too bad that travellers

Bhould have to journey from Woodville to Napier, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., without anything to eat unless they can put up with the rough and uninviting accommodation to be found. The experience of those who have once travelled overland to Wellington must be such that they will never willingly go by that route again. Tho Union Company's steamers will derive the gains that are actually driven from the railway through the absence of attention to the wants of the travelling public.