DANGER FROM WILD CATTLE.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 139, 9 July 1872, Page 6

DANGER FROM WILD CATTLE.

To the Editor <J the Cromwell Argus. Sir, —Last week an accident of a very serious character occurred on the road between Cardrona and the Wanaka Lake, to a team belonging to a waggoner named John Mace, (well known in the | district,) by which he had Iris waggon partly de-; stroyed and two of his horses injured. Indeed, : one of them had its ley br. .ken, and was affected in other respects to such an extent, that it was found necessary to destroy it. This accident was !

occasioned by a heifer, about fifteen months old, which is believed to be the property of a butcher at the Cardrona. Considering the state of the animal, I consider that it would only have been an act of common humanity on the part of the owner to have had it destroyed, instead of leaving it in misery by the roadside for nearly a week before this accident occurred. Accidents of this kind are in a great many instances the result of pure carelessness ; and it too often happens, not only in this district, but all over the country, that parties are in the habit of over-driving stock to such an extent

that they have to be left by the roadside this over-driving, also, the cattle are furious, and hence dangerous ; and will, that state, attack not only persons, but any ject that may be in their way. Stock in’, cases are left unprotected by the drivers reo , less alike of injury to personal property anj solute danger to passers-by ; and if an accii) should occur through such carelessness, i™ of the sufferers receiving sympathy and » tance from those who are to blame, a smile a joke is very often all that is bestowed. Such an accident as that narrated above ij only a serious loss in itself, but it has the g of destroying for a time the waggoner’s mean livelihood. And the law should be very g incases in which stock is over-driven and untended lay the roadside ; because the p s highways are thus frequently rendered m! and positively dangerous to travellers. I trust, Sir, that the recurrence of such J dents will be prevented by the owners of s tj causing in the future a greater amount of cat-, be exercised in driving the same. —I am, & c Pembroke, Gth July. Vurjxk