Referring to conversation with you yesterday, Waimea Railway Company is prepared at once (to-morrow if necessary) to connect with Government trains at Gore and Lumsden, as per time table proposed by Mr Maxwell, say leave Gore two fifty, arrive Lumsden five twenty-five; leave Lumsden nine fifty-five, arrive Gore twelve thirty-five. The Company will continue to do its own booking as at present. Mutually satisfactory arrangements to be made as to departmental charges which we have already objected to as excessive.