A CORRECTION.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 10, 27 November 1878, Page 2

A CORRECTION.

■ Tq. T^tE EDITOR. Sift— Aecidenf ally piokinjr ujnonfrof youi;, papers, I noticed a smal) raaj^er. relating to accidents ar.d. detaining of the coach, at OJiau Ericer-s&ieral tiraea, and. through, thetame, being behind time. for. the train, Remember, if; i? easily to talfe hut .very hard to, woflc B'.Uh sopw-, people, who. like to. see their hdndwrking or "gas "'- put into print but m finding the longand.shqrt and straight*' part m a matter of. that sort-, 1 1 hip k thht the.bj.tiok. sheep., will turn ouf to he.wliite. So I learn, or a|°. ieast to see; for the truth. Peaple. spnietijnea, and very often, think themselves so very clever that they ran learn m. a day — they might at rum and Tajik, but not at the rivers on the West Coast. The fact of the danger is simply, a tree -3>r from tliirtjr. to. fifty, fee,t i^lenjjth— whiplr lies straight up and down the river, ajid gradually sliifts according to tides ajid freshes. The. coach, three^ or fomr. tim*«, mere, or. less, has, catne.in contact with, the said tree. Tv^o able-bodied men, offeredjto tako the trjee.oiit- ofr-the riyer ft£ th^coflt of • £1 lOs.each.;. ajid,Bp i learn for truth, ''*?»«« drivers of the, same-, coaqh; ojfl^wed;the fwll. amount of one bottle, of;Oi(i.^a.tnaica r*to, and to, m»ke this; Taljit»bfe. re>v:irs; nore tenipting;, said, he ifpiiMi bi^ng, the.botJle'. all the. w,ajr- ' 'f rpnij WeHiß^on, forgetting thi»t an.inß..Yi!a?.kept wjthin "a lo^-'Souk' call; of fchesflid tnee, and. by paying, the amount. of the t'ttid £t. ifh each, would save p^rhap^ hundVals. of pounrls. In,fnct, n splendid new coach of wp'li say the.ponrpatjn. cps|. of • £70 to, j6 ; *("V w^ii!* be. paid for repairin.'. besid^ hftTJng, », highly ■« eprcted. oo^t-hlo <fe \ of passenit?r» on. hoard, all, wet t« theneekj and: if iM«v t>ot nusUikeo, a reftpectahle bather, m. the. township, of Foxtpn.; $up;)p»e ; all hnndo "Kara. taVen. out to" sea by i)i».Mnid

and all through a paltry thirty •hillings. At the same timo, not putting the slightest blame to the proprietor*, who perhap* knsw but very little of the matter, bat meaning the driver; and I learn it has bat very little whatever to do with the ferry, na th© said danger lie* at the mouth of the r".Vfiir and th^ ferry is kept inland. So r#m!mber, gents., giving you » true account I hope you will be able to see I am on the» right side ■of the matter, being a crosser of' the same river for the last 23 year*. — I any *c.,- ■• ■■■ ■■■■■- -■ ■ - ! ..• ■■.:." ■■■ Me. CoAstaa.