WEST COAST RAILWAYS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2896, 15 September 1909, Page 6

WEST COAST RAILWAYS.

AN UNPOPULAR SERVICE. HOKITIKA, September 10. !Ehe dislocation of the railway service JSj $he stoppage* of tbe Thursday evening ■mil train to Greymoufch is causing great Inconvenience and much public dissatisfaction. Yesterday tht Hon. J. M'Gowan Iras stranded here till the owner of a motor car oame 3bo tbe rescue, taking tbe son. gentleman through to Greymouth. &he car also carried numerous letters for jthe outgoing mails from Greymouth today. The department promises a month's trial o£ the new service, but seeing its treat public inconvenience the Minister (b asked by the heads of local bodies to

put on a special train for Thursday evenings for the remainder of the trial, so as to serve the passengers and mails which leave to «atch the outgoing Wellington steamer and the Christchurch coach from Greymouth -on Fridays. The .water that pours over the Falls of Niagara is wearing the rock away at the rate of five yards in four years. In 1895 a -Sydney bankrupt's estate was placed in the hands of the official assignee, and a discharge was never applied for. Recently the . bankrupt's son died intestate, leaving the father the only next of kin. Then the official assignee- stepped in and obtained probate, and the creditors now reoeive 15s in the poised instead of a much smaller amount.