Tut; Times, of August 21, in its account of the Queen’s visit to the Scottish Border, says;—As intimated by telegraph, the royal train was an hour and forty minutes late on reaching Kelso station this morning, not coming in till 11.20. The delay is ascribed to a fact calculated to occasion no little anxiety in the public mind. It was, it is said, discovered only yesterday evening that the new State carriage of her Majesty is built too wide for the bridges, or some of them, on the Waverley route. Providentially it was suggested to examine whether or not this was the case, and the gnage of the carriage having been taken, it was applied and found to be too large for the structural works on this lino. Whether the new Royal carriage be too large, or the works on this railway be too small, there jis presented to the public mind a new source of danger in railway travelling, and a peril just escaped of a momentous kind. It had on Tuesday been arranged (hat the programme should be so far altered as that the Queen, instead of stopping at Eiccarton, should breakfast at Carlisle, but this could only account for a small portion of the long delay that occurred, nor could it account for the fact that at Carlisle the Queen’s new saloon carriage was replaced by another of smaller dimensions, in which the in;!’-””-.iuo ouuoiunvmj kak. A Greyheaded Cow. —Mr W. H. Williams, of the Four-mile Creek, Little Billabong, had an old red cow t hirty-three years of age that was given to him when he was a boy, which had left oil calving about eight years ago. The animal was covered with grey hair to the eyes, and was a moving picture of bovine old age. A few days ago the aged animal went into a waterho'le and got bogged, and not having strength to extricate herself, she quietly succumbed to her fate.—Albury Banner. Only Thine of this, Friends.— An American paper says : —There is a man up the country who always pays for his paper in advance. Ho has never had a sick day in his life, never had any corns or footache Vjao TN/Nf one MOrftKWClf fViA vraeril v-i wwj v»o nCviii UOCI his wheat, the frost never kills his corn or beans, his babes never cry in the night, and his wife never scolds.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XII, Issue 538, 30 December 1867, Page 1
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