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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3728, 27 June 1883, Page 2

The Impounding Bill, introduced by the Hon. Mr Dick, is for the most part similar to that which was passed by the Legislative Council and a Select Committee of the House of Representatives in 1880. The_ Bill is a most important one, affecting as it does in a large measure the law of trespass. No occupier of unfencedland can claim damages for trespass of cattle, but occupiers of fenced land may sue for trespass rates, as defined in the first schedule, or actual damages. Should pigs or goats trespass a second time within three months double trespass rates may by charged. The occupier of land under artificial grass or under cultivation may destroy pigs, goats, or poultry trespassing thereon, provided that he within 24 hours send notice to their owner that he has done so. All unbranded cattle above six months old, or apparently so, shall be Crown property. No person impounding cattle shall bo liable for pound fees. No cattle shall be driven off land not in the occupation of the person driving them without 24 hours' notice having been first given, but nothing in this section is to affect the provisions of any Sheep Act.