The Feilding Star. THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1890. Jubilee Day.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 87, 16 January 1890, Page 2

The Feilding Star. THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1890. Jubilee Day.

- •- ♦ Considerable disgust is being expressed by the settlers who live up country, some twenty -.or thirty miles from the railway station* that no facilities are given them of knowing what the train arrangements will be for the Wellington Jubilee, to be celebrated on or about the 22nd instant. We quite sympathise with them, knowing, as we do, that their dissatisfaction is reasonable. The rule with the railway authorities is to advertise about three days, or four days at the outside, before the event to which the public are expected to travel, takes place. It happens therefore that as people in the back settlements do not get their newspapers every evening as they do in larger towns, that they seldom kno.v anything about it until after the occasion has gone past. Now iv the case under consideration, there are literally hundreds of the sons or connection? of the first / Wellington arrivals here in our immediate neighborhood, or within a radius of thirty miles, yet practically they have no direct information as to what means they may have , at their disposal to convey . them to the Empire City should they desire to go. There are few men in this active and pushing place who can leave their -farms or business at a moment's notice,- " tho' pleasure beu't," ;j and those who have the " ruling of the' railways" should think of this instead of wasting valuable time in deciding whether a train should start: at a quarter past -twelve or 12.13. {[Since the above was jfn type we ha v© received the necessary timetable, • published in another column. 7