Melbourne, September 28,

The Railway department has attracted at tention to itself in a variety of ways lately. To begin with, there were two of those cases oE tampering with railway lines which appear to be in the list of motiveless crimes. One of them bids fair to join another list that of Undiscovered crimes. An attempt waS made to shift the rails on the Geelong line, but the mischief was-perceived in time to avert any accident. The wretched being who made this endeavour to horrify the community by a railroad slaughter has so far escaped. The other case was a singular one indeed. The rails were so slightly dis turbed that no accident could possibly have happened—indeed is is argued that no one but the man who did the act could have dis covered the mischief; and consequently the employe who made the smart discovery has been arrested on the assumption that he committed the offence with the idea of gaining kudo 3by making his discovery so Quickly. If this assumption proves to jbe true, what may r we not exDect 1 The next thing will be that the man who shifted the rails on the Geelong line will prove to have been an intending traveller who had a beati iic vision of a big verdict for damages a'^'the result of "his railway accident. There are other ways of making a few thousands besides backing the winner of a cup.
