STRAYING CATTLE.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 86, 3 April 1883, Page 2

STRAYING CATTLE.

■*■ Sixce the resignation of the Borough Ranger we notice that several of our citizens have had to act on their own behalf in impounding stray stock. The result has been that the parties to whom the offending horses and cattle belonged have been put to more expense than when the Ranger held sway. At night, in some of the suburban roads, it is unsafe, or at least very unpleasant for foot passengers, whose avocations take them abroad in the dark, to stumble over the bodies of sleeping kine, or to be tripped up by the tether ropes of horses, that have been put out by their proprietors to graze in the " long paddocks." It is now high time that something more was done by the Borough Council or the constable, who is ex officio Ranger, for the protection of the lives or limbs of the ratepayers and others who have to encounter these unnecessary obstacles to safe travelling, in the streets at night. The nuisance was bad enough before there was any Ranger at all, and now that we have had one, and badgered him into resigning the position because he overdid his duty sometimes, the evil has assumed ten times larger proportions.