“A Little Black Moustache.”

Expressing “sincere and grateful thanks” for the recovery of an overcoat which was inadvertently left on a North Island train recently, Mr. M. S. Galloway, Khandallah, writes to the Acting General Manager of Railways, Mr. G. H. Mackley, as follows:—

Whilst travelling on the Palmerston North train from Khandallah recently I carelessly left my overcoat on the rack of the carriage at Plimmerton station. I reported the loss to your officers at the latter station, but too late for them to intercept the train at Paekakariki, so the coat went on to Palmerston North. On returning from Plimmerton the following day (Sunday) imagine my surprise when the guard, in the midst of his other worries, with a cheerful smile, sorted me out in a crowded train and said: “Are you the gentleman who left his coat in the train yesterday?” “Yes,” I said, and after describing the lost article satisfactorily, he brought it along and restored it to me. Flattering myself that I should be so apparently well known, I enquired how he came to pick me out in such a crowd. He replied: “Well, when I handed your coat to the Stationmaster at Plimmerton, he said you were on the train, and he described you as having a little black moustache.”

A Mountain Of Vari-Coloured Earths.
(Photos, courtesy Forestry Dept.)
Two views of Rainbow Mountain, Maungakakaramea, North Island, New Zealand. The bottom view shews the invading vegetation near the main crater.

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Sir Donald Maclean as a young man. (From a portrait about 1840.)