WHERE ARK THE POLICE?

Evening Star, Issue 3484, 23 April 1874, Page 3

WHERE ARK THE POLICE?

To the Editor. Sib, —Would you allow me to draw your attention to a very striking proof of the growing prosperity of this Province ? A few months ago you might walk through all the highways and byways of Caversham without seeing a single cow; now, however, to

whatever part of the district yon may be going, you cannot fail to meet one or more of these interesting creatures. Nor is it only in the streets and lanes they are to be met with. Two splendid animals paid me a visit last night, and did me the honor of minutely inspecting nearly every part of my little garden. 1 do not know what their breed may be, but their intelligence is certainly of a very high order. The proof of this is that, after going over the whole of the garden, as if to make a preliminary search, they at last devoured the whole of a bed of cabbages—the finest thing in the garden. lam now cabbageless; but what of that ? The district is going ahead, and private rights must never stand in the way of the public good.—Yours, &c,,

Plaoidus, Dunedin, April 23. P S. I have heard that several of my neighbors have been similarly visited; but I am sorry to say they have not my public spirit. One of them even goes so far as to say bad words about the cews.