OUR COUNTRY CORRESPONDENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 3364, 1 December 1873, Page 2

OUR COUNTRY CORRESPONDENCE.

Gi.knore. —lt is wonderful what coaches can do in the way of increasing travelling. Yeend’s line of coaches are getting as much as they can carry, and it seems Cobb’s are busier than ever. Even the fact of tire indefatigable Lloyd going over to the opposition did not diminish the traffic of his former master. Even the glass cab to Tuapeka is doing a thundering trade, and the mvner of this glass case is something like Mr Yeeml. He will not carry any of the Celestials for fear that the fair sox wall take it amiss. —TheTuapcka railway is creating a great deal of trade, and the navvies and shearers are flocking fast up country. It seems the railway engineers have busy times of it, as they could not inspect the line but on Sabi rath. This is not like narrow guage, it is on a very broad principle. But, however, I am informed that the contractors are pleased in getting Mr John, the railway engineer, over the line. We are given to understand that it was this ''■entleman who surveyed the line at first; therefore he knows its requirements better than a stranger. Hitherto it seems the contractors were complaining bitterly of the, conduct of the so-called inspectors, which, according to my information, is a misnomer. Governments generally make bad selections in appointing green and indifferent hands for such responsible billets, and such foolish appointments generally lead to troubles between engineers and contractors, and eventually Government have to pay the piper ; but as in this case, the presence of a respectable engineer daily on the ground will tend greatly to keep both parties “square.”