RAILWAY CHANGES.

Southland Times, Issue 1531, 30 January 1872, Page 3

RAILWAY CHANGES.

Sir, — Our railway people are wonderful experimentalists. JN ever is one theory well in practice, until some glorious amendment is conceived. It may not be great in itself, but it keeps the public awake. If, for instance, the times of arrival and departure of the trains remained fixed for six months, people would fall into a regular way in their outgoings and incomings, more befitting an old jogtrot country than this rollicking young one.

The train has left Winton at half-past eight in the morning for some time. It has during the past year gone the round of the clock, and it was thought that patient experiment had found out a suitable hour. But in yesterday's paper appears a notice altering the time to a quarter past eight.

Your paper is generally circulated here, but the more obscure advertisements are not generally read, and he would certainly be a very general and voracious reader who would have any chance of meeting the advertisement in question. In the particular spot in wliich. you. have placed, it, it is as little likely to be met with as common sense in our railway ( I won't mention who or what). Consequence will be, people will keep arriving at the railway shed here, on and after Thursday, lat February, at half-past eight as formerly, and a large percentage of the railway riding community will get shortshipped, and learn the true time. After it has been borne in upon them that it is 8.15 sharp, the odd 15 will be docked off.

The Wintonites mean to memorialise the Superintendent, the Secretary for Land and Works, the Treasurer, and everybody else who has any power in the matter, to raise the salary of the livelyminded author of these changes. — I am, &c, A Lover of Change.