TRAIN TRAVELLERS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10183, 8 March 1911, Page 4

TRAIN TRAVELLERS.

The travellers by the combination of dust, shake, and officialdom which we are pleased to designate the express train® of this ' 'loanly'' ' Dominion, are of such, a varied character, thai; they afford a good deal of interest, not to say entertainme:it, vto the: casual observer. Imagine, for a train, travelling between Wamganui : and Palmerston North. At one enid' >of the smoking car are seated two immacu-lately-attired gentlemen, who discuss, -the prospects' of Fly-by-night, or } Greased Lightning, dr. some other equine defeating all the ; efforts of "Johnny Armstrong" and appropriating the coveted stakes at the Bushtown meet on the following day. They are bookmakers. At the other end of the same car are two pious-looking individuals, in clerical garb. They are discussing a. question with equal earnestness.'. It is the prospect of who will be appointed to a certain bishopric. is; a degree of speculation in both cases, of coui'se, but the siibjeots are iso widely apart as to create a striking contrast. Aiid;, w3ieii' :; the train stops at a certain .staitioit, an ' inquisitive clerk treats them all alike. As a check upon the dishonest guard, lie makes parsons as well as "bookies" produce their tickets to show , that they are entitled 1 ' to travel.