Correspondence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 7, Issue 358, 15 March 1866, Page 2

Correspondence.

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[To the Editor of the Hawke’s Bay Times.J Sib, —I do not know whether you are much acquainted with sheep farming, but I will just pen you a few lines to let you know how wo get on here, in the Mohaka block. I dare say you know all or most of the settlers there, but I am sorry to say thera is a great amount of roguery going on by some person or persons very well known by us, —such as going on other settlers’ runs at daybreak and driving all their sheep and lambs away to distant parts of their own run at docking time, for what purpose I am not going to say, but must let you and your readers judge for yourselves; also of mustering their sheep, and if any of their neighbors’ sheep ore amongst them, they shear them themselves. But when, at the mustering, the said person or persons are told of this trick, they deny all knowledge of the same. After some queer conversation they own to having shorn some, and agree to pay for them; but, when called upon for the money by the proprietor of the sheep, refuse to give it—denying ever having made a promise to that effect. Mr Editor, is such conduct right ? Ido not think so ; and I am sure, Sir, you would confer a great benefit upon us if you could acquaint us with a cure for such breaches of the law, and how such cure can be administered. In conclusion, 1 can take upon myself to say that there is more roguery carried on in the Mohaka Block than upon any other block of like size in Nejr Zealand,—l am, &0., tfobalfc Util i&rch f lß66. Hum |ut.