THE ROADS TO THE DUNSTAN.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 317, 25 December 1862, Page 5

THE ROADS TO THE DUNSTAN.

{To the Editor of the Daily Times.) Sir,—" Live and let live is truliy a good motto, but few persons in this place appear to believe in it. '•Live" is the maxim, " andl never mind at whose expense.'? I am a drayman, and have just come down from the Dunstan. On looking over a late number of your paper, I was surprised to see a fine epistle about tiie good road from Dunedin to those diggings, written by a gentleman who drove from the Dunstan to town in little better than two days. His description of the road is indeed fine, and one which would lead a parsou to believe it was equal to the road from town to Saddle Hill. Now, Sir, that fast-travelling gentleman has a store on the Dunstan, and from his careful outline of the road no doubt wants his goods tak an up at any man's expense but his own. Cheap carriage appear*-; to. be his object, and not a truedsscription of this very ttifV ticult and dangerous road. He does nob tell yon the hazard every man runs who drives a'-t'eauvou it! How "many horses he saw dead onths road ; ; No ! every thing i 3 first-rate. Why, sir, there are dangerous sideings, and places on some of .the-hills,-whew,.if a dray turned over, it must be smishell and the horses, killed, for nothing could.save them. There are rivers with rocky bottoms, endangering the axletrees whenever a dray fords them. Hil.s, where it often requires nine horses to pull up one d ay. And last, hue not'least, poisonous, herb? which kill all hordes which eat them. These are tb.B perils draymen have to encounter on this fine road, and which storekeepers should take into consideration, and instead of trying to grind clown the pries of carriage give.a fair thing, so t^at carriers may live as well as themselves. The present rate of catriage, in many instances, does not more than cover expenses, and . should a mau lose a horse, his loss is great; such as three or four trips ! will not cover. Taking all these things into consideration, it would only be fair neither to write or say anything that will injure any class. Trusting you will grant this a corner in your valuable paper, and asking pardon for taking up your space, I am, &c, Fair Play. Dunedin, Dec 23,1832,