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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 99, 29 September 1877, Page 2

We should like to know why the railway guard acted so" strangely yesterday at the Palmerston station. A batch of, printing work that was urgently required m Foxton had just been prepared m time to go by the train, but as there appears to be a regulation that parcels must be at the station 15 minutes before the train starts, and as the parcel m. question was not -there within the specified time the officials, as they had a perfect right to, refused iitotakeit. Sd far good. Butfa gentleman standing by, seeing the difficulty, kindly took the parcel f rorii the messenger and gave it m charge to a friend of his who was at the' time going by the train to Foxtori; We understand* that the i guard, seeing this, snatched the parcel the gentleman who had^ taken .charge of* it and threw it violently * against the station wail.- The parcel came back to the office: m a battered condition.- Nbw we' are strongly averse to having our property served m this way, and we are still more averse to having the good natured act •of a friend treated with such impertinent interference, are not aware that either breach of- the amenities lies

within the duties of a public servant, and may therefore fairly remind the party referred to that a certain amount of responsibility attaches itself to wild ac'ions when the public or any part of the public suffers thereby.