BY HON. A. NORTON, M.L.C. 93 



ab'^ufc the people whose country the whites had taken from them. 

 In January, 1860, the first mail was run by horse from Walgett 

 down the river. 



In March, 1860, I bid my western friends good-bye, and rode 

 in as far as Molong, where I delivered my horse to the Crown 

 Lands Commissioner, who was to send him to Dowling, when 

 an opportunity offered. I then took caach and got as far as 

 Bathurst without delay, but in those good old times the gold 

 from the mines was sent by coach to Sydney, and no others but 

 the escort were allowed to accompany it ; as there was only one 

 coach daily, I had to spend a night and day in Bathurst. On 

 the following afternoon we however made a fresh start. The 

 roads were rough, exceptionally so in those places which had 

 •been "corduroyed" ; the coach was rough also, and the 

 language of some of the passengers was quite in keeping with 

 our surroundings. Still all things have an end, and we were 

 safely landed at Penrith in time for breakfast. Thence we had 

 a train to travel by to Sydney, to which good town I was not 

 sorry to return after an absence of six months in the western 

 -districts. 



