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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 52, 30 December 1867, Page 323

The 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 guage of the carriage having been taken, it was applied and found to be too large for the structural works on this line. Whether the new Royal carriage be too large, or the works on this railway be too small, there is 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 that the programme should be so far altered as that the Queen, instead of, stopping at Riccarton, 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 whicli the journey was satisfactorily accomplished. - A' Greyheaded • Cow.—MrJW. H. 'Williams, of the Four-mile: Creek, Kittle Billabong, had an bid red cowthirty-three years of age that'was given -to him when he was a boy, which hadileftioff calving, about eight years ago: ; -The animal was:covered with : grey. hair to, the 'eyes,And was a movmg¥pieture bf bovine old. age;.. A few days |ago; th&dge'd. animal went.into..a jvaterhole and . gbt ! ' bogged, and 1 , not having strength' to extricate herself,; she ,quietly succumbed to herfate.—Albury Banner. , ...; Onut; Think of this; Friends.— -An A&bricaa paper says is a man up the country,who always pays'fbr his paper iti : Mvance;He has never 'had l u sick day in his life; ; uever. haidAhy corhs or footache, his pptatqes never rot, the weevil never eats the, frost, never kills his; ; cbrn 6* ius f "vrae ; ’'SeTOt ? «!bldsl i -f;