CORRESPONDENCE.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 22, 30 August 1882, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

i%X^.l ftj |f{ TO THE EDITOR. ii^Bj^rjf understand that this aiternooriL ajcenti.fefnan (a stranger in Feilding) on 'gmmf'into Bellve's Hotel for a few minutes, fastened his horse to a hook on a post, fixed opposite the hotel door, and of the Feilding Borough Court cil took'the Ji.oisejjviiJi.its «saddle«and bridle* ■to/fche ■-■■■ {pound. Tins appears] to],me a grossly illcga-r-jrct.;; The^QnJj^apparen.tJusfcifica-' tion the f anger cb\ild have, 'would be byelaw No iS^'o^the/BQroiigh'v'iTChichis as follows :—" No jpersons shall tet/ier any_ aritma'l upon, oV sb that lt'inaiy • street or public place, or being the ownerof any sucjj j animaVlajlp.w{ ,thT/s2\gie to beso tethered or to graze or to pasture, or wander at largo > np.on'lany such public place." It is perfectly clear that fastening a horse by its -bTirfte as abov-nen-jtioned cannot be a. brpach.of this bye-law jwlVicli 'i^'ferV^to^etlJenn^'bniy l. namely, jconfiiv'rtg horses or other cattle hx; avrope-i [to prevent them: pasturing beyond a {certain distance. That-this is the true moaning of the word tethoi:, .will bp,seen f torn Jtheifdli) witig extract 5 from '"Wftl'lcer's dictionary : —"Tktiteb, ,a string by which.p cattle are held from pasturing too "wiaeV"' [Al^ cur. lexicpgvap]iers se r em tp.jjprjejfcr Shis'(;w6Tfl to'decider'except^^ Barclay and jjunius, who refer us from tether to tedder, A 'find 3 Tet nothing^con be(>terearei >';tlian- lits" JeHt-vft-tion-fi'om-fche-Belgic'Word'teZrfer,"" n'hich JußiusiespliiflhsVt'o cbdijC^rope, by ivhieh horses or other cattle are tied to ceep them from straying, and this, he says, jiinVlouW^Tiy^omey^om thy-lfeh^^i —a rope." —l am, &c, SlittfKtSS OODBEHEBE. Feilding, August 25, 1882.