A COMPLAINT FROM BENDIGO.

Cromwell Argus, Volume 2, Issue 95, 5 September 1871, Page 6

A COMPLAINT FROM BENDIGO.

To. the Editor of the Cromwell Argus. ; Sir, —I wish, through the columns of your; paper, to call attention to a matter which is causing much annoyance, and often serious loss, to the miners on Beudigo. Mr M'Lean's shep-1 herds, without giving any notice, have lately been laying down poison, in many instances quite close to our huts ; and by this means I my-1 self, about a week ago, lost a dog which L would j not have taken £2O for. Several others in this | neighbourhood have also lost very valuable dogs | within the last two or three weeks ; and even the fowls about the doors have been poisoned. It seems very hard that a person cannot keep a dog to drive his cows home at night, without running the risk of having it poisoned close to his very door, especially when he has to pay a dog-tax of 10s a head to the Government. Of course it would be another thing if the dogs had been killing any of the sheep ; we would then be quite willing that they should be destroyed, | —in tact, we would destroy them ourselves. But those that have been poisoned have been | doing nothing of the sort ; and it is extremely j annoying (to say the least of it) to find a valuable dog lying dead close to your hut, destroyed by persons to whom it never occasioned the I slightest loss, —perhaps just after having paid tho tax to the police. By inserting this, you will greatly oblige,— Yours, &c, A Bendigo Miner. Bendigo, September 2, IST I.