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Dunstan Times, Issue 835, 19 April 1878, Page 2

The Dunedin mail via Tuapeka on Wed- | nesday lust din not come to hand, the cause 1 assigned being that it must have gone on to Balclutlia. Satisfactory as this may be to those who had to make the excuse, we consider it most unsatisfactory, and we hold that a searching inquiry should be made into the matter. It may be said, and doubtless is, when these accidents happen, Oh, it is only the Clyde mail, or the Cromwell mail, it will be all right by the next coach. We, however, do not consider it “ all right,” and we maintain such a state of things should not exist, whereby nn important district like that of Clyde should suffer an inconvenience through neglect, whether of the post-office, the railway, or the coach officials. We hold perfectly blameless the latter, as their duty is only to carry, but one of the others is most decidedly blameable, and whoever it is should be brought to book. To allow this to pass unnoticed is to admit the thin end of the wedge of all sorts of irregularities into our otherwise perfect system, we therefore raise our voice in protest, and hope that it will have the effect of preventing a recurrence.