Having found no reference to a Ballarat Fly, outside of fly-fishing in Ballarat, I remain curious as to where Mark Twain came up with that name for the railway known as the Napier Express. Are there any known Twain scholars in New Zealand that might have a clue? Twain refers to it both as the "Ballarat Fly" and "The Fly" in the first paragraph of chapter 35. -- There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. http://bscottholmes.com