Only last week we are informed a dray left Launceston for the tunnel now being constructed on the Scottsdale railway, and when opposite Mr. Grandfield's, just beyond German Town, the dray stuck in a very bad part of the road. The efforts of four strong cart horses to move it, our informant states, even when the chaff weighing 16 cwt., with which the dray was loaded, was thrown off, proved unavailing. The driver, then endeavoured to get a team of bullocks to pull the dray out, but being unable to do so, he obtained a pair of blocks, and extemporised a pulley, to which the horses were attached, to pull the dray on to firm ground, the result being that before the cart was extricated from the mud the shafts parted.
The spot mentioned is only one out of many of a similar character, and all along the road can be noticed the marks of bodies of carts, as though they had been drawn over it like sledges. A sum of money was voted last session for this road, none of which sum, however, has yet been spent. It is to be hoped that necessary action for the repairs to the road, will be taken as soon as practicable.
Local & General (1886, July 31). The Tasmanian (Launceston, Tas. : 1881 - 1895), p. 25. Retrieved March 11, 2020, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article200324648