The Oamaru Mail. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE NEW ZEALAND AGRICULTURIST. MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1879.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 904, 10 March 1879, Page 2

The Oamaru Mail. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE NEW ZEALAND AGRICULTURIST. MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1879.

Th»» truck difficulty is one the treatment uf which calls forth nil the ingenuity of th« Railway Department. That there is a too limited supply vi rolling stock in the Colony to adsuMt of tho work of the department being earned out with ease and «ou»fort to ita onic*?*» and entire satisfaction, to the public i» palpable.. A few .trucks sunt from Lyttettoo to. Oamaru destroy* the nice adjustment which *hould—whk'h, indeed, most—be obwurved in the distribution of thia class of roUiuif stock. Yesterday, twenty-tive trueks of lambs arrived here from Canterbury *«i n>nt* for Invercargitt, which could be conveyed no further by the department because the trucks were urgently required for other purposes attention to which would not admit of delay. We Mattered oursekes when we heard thia news, that, although it would bo » little hard on the lambs*' systems, anil perhaps on their owner's pockets, wo were to receive the 1 benefit of the location, of these trucks, in thia district. It is true that whilst 2&arrwed 40 departed ; out w« thought that tho latter had Bwrtljr goo* ««a»wh«r» within th« limits.

of the Oiwnato Railway District, and would shortly retain with a load of |jr*in. We- were mistaken, however, for the 40 trucks will to-day be leaded with grain at Mr. Sw&ttn'tstB r !* and elsewhere and retttra to the fitwe whence they came, in orrf«r that we might not have more than out share to the deprivation of another district. „ That rolling »tock is onneccasarity scarce <aa oar lines is admitted on all hands. It i* therefore a matter for, congratulations that there have not yet occurred thi» grain season any *' blocks on our tine* in conaer£tte.nc« of such scarcity. VV« have, at all events, received no complaints from the farmers; and, although there yet remains the thick of the produce of the late harvest to bring in,, we have hope* that, with the addition of a tittle extra rolling stock to, that which we have at present, and by the eXeereiae of care and attention fey the railway officers, we may do: vastly better than we dtil last year.