DISAPPOINTED TOURISTS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW ZEALAND TIMES. SIR, —Observing a paragraph in your issue of the 9th instant, in reference to the Foxton coach and the steamer Te Anau, we, as two of the unfortunates, would like your readers to know the precise facts of the case. After leaving Foxton at 3 a.m, (three hours before the usual time), and having previously wired an urgent telegram to tho company’s manager here (to which he was not good enough to reply) to know if he could detain the steamer one hour, or until arrival of coach at 3 p.m., and receiving no reply, we took ** pot luck,” and arrived just in time to see her steaming slowly down the harbor. We really do not see why tho manager could not have detained the boat one hour in response to an urgent telegram, as often the Southern boats do not leave until long after the advertised time of sailing. By the steamer leaving so punctual to time four passengers for the Melbourne Exhibition, and four for Christchurch, were also left to grieve disappointed in Wellington.— Yours, &c., Tourists. November 11, 1880.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 6118, 11 November 1880, Page 3
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