THAT RAILWAY TIME TABLE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue 20, 9 November 1880, Page 2

THAT RAILWAY TIME TABLE.

Upon a previous occasion, we expressed doubt of the truth of the statement of the Rangitikei Advocate that only one person left Foxton for the Wanganui Cattle Show in 1879. It will be remembered the Marton paper offegfldMppwstatenient as a "short andj|pHpefc|J!Z answer to our crticism upon tbj||Hnetable for this year,.wiiich ;^fjrtved Foxton

people of the opportunity of going to the Show on the Show day. "Wo now have positive proof that the Advocate was misled, as its statement was contrary to fact. Mr Gr. Satherley, overseer of the Moutoa estate, informs us that on the Show day in 1879, Sir John Powell, Mr John Davies, and himself for certain started from Foxton for Wanganui, and that between Foxton and Palmerston Messrs C. Simpson and Akers, two well-known farmers, joined the party. Those gentlemen Mr Satherley distinctly remembers going through with, but in addition to them, a number of persons whose names he did not know joined the train for Wauganui between Foxton and Palmerston. So much for the Advocate's " inspiration." We will not follow the matter up any further, except to say that the closer it is looked into the more foolish does the action of the Manager in stopping the Foxtou train at Halcombe appear.