CLYDE COMMONAGE.
{TO THE EDITOR OF THE DUNSTAN TIMES.) Sir,—l have just heard that one of our local fanners is daily expecting the arrival of lifteen or seventeen hundred sheep, and that he has made application for a license to depasture them upon the goldfields common within this district. Such being the case, it is to be hoped that the Corporation of Clyde and others immediately interested will at once set to work, and make a stand against such intrusion. For the last few years the loss which the inhabitants of Clyde and the immediate district have sustained, through the speculation of one private individual depasturing somewhere about sixteen hundred sheep on the commonage (for which the Government paid such a large sum as compensation to the run-holder, for the benefit of the Clyde district), has been quite incalculable. A second speculator coming on the common, with his fifteen or seventeen hundred sheep to depasture thereon, is enough to drive the settlers upon the commonage who are engaged in agricultural pursuits from the district altogether, and at the same time will scarcely leave a blade of grass lor great cattle to feed upon. I am, &c., DAIRYMAN. Clyde, May 5, 1869.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 367, 7 May 1869, Page 3
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