WHERE ARE THE POLICE?

Evening Star, Issue 3485, 24 April 1874, Page 3

WHERE ARE THE POLICE?

To the Editor. Sik, —** Placidus,” in last night’s Stab, deserves the thanks of his neighbors for his pluck in writing about the cow nuisance in Oaversbam. I fully endorse all that he says and can speak bitterly of the damage these Interesting creatures have done to my garden. It is to be hoped the police will at once see their way clear to take this matter up, and not allow the repeated complaints of the inhabitants to remain unheeded any longer. ** Piacidus,” in his P.S., states that I called the cows bad names, but he mistakes. The sackfull of objectives I hurled out on the occasion referred to was intended for the owners of the animals. Is there no chance of being able to walk down Princes street south (past Guthrie and Larnaeh’s), without fear of being hoisted seine ten or twenty feet up in the air upon a piece of timber shovelled out of a doprway over the pavement ? And have the police no power to cause draymen to load in the timber-yard instead of backing their horses into the kerb, and thereby monopolizing half the road ? Some time ago a person was not allowed to wheel a truck across the footpath ; but now the gentlemen referred to not only take up the foothpath, but the greater part of the road too.—l am, &0., r