CORRESPONDENCE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume III, Issue 143, 1 October 1853, Page 5

CORRESPONDENCE.

r To the Editor of the Lyttelton Times. Sir, —You would confer a very great favour on nine-tenths of the people of Christchurch, by publishing in Saturday's paper, the Ordinances relating to Cattle Trespass, both within and Avithout the limits of a town. If I mistake not, there is a Police Ordinance instructing these indolent gentlemen to drive to the public pound, or to summons the owners of, all horses and cattle straying within the limits of a town. That this duty is very grossly neglected is fully borne out Jjy the fact that night after night people are Kept awake for hours together by a herd of horses and working bullocks surrounding their houses, levelling their fences, destroying their crops—the produce of persevering industry, and anxious expectation—rendering abortive every attempt to make their gardens as they ought to be, a source of profit and pleasure. Our Resident-Magistrate, however, generally esteemed, is, on this point, not altogether free from blame, and if he refuses to take this as a hint to see that the Police do their duties, he may anticipate further and plainer allusion to his own apathy on the subject. I am, Sir, Your obedient Servant, Candour. Ckristehurcli, Sept. 26, 1853.