CORRESPONDENCE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume V, Issue 256, 14 April 1855, Page 6

CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor of the Lyttelton Times. Sib, —Permit me to ask the favour of your inserting in your valuable paper the following few remarks respecting the new Cattle Trespass Ordinance now in force. The encouragement given to persons who have a section of land (say 50 acres), and ploughs, or causes to be ploughed, five or six acres, and sows the same with oats as a trap or bait for all his neighbour's cattle, far and near, and should they only put their feet on the land, and scarcely taste of its produce, they are driven to the owner, or stockyard, with a demand of 2s. 6d. per head, and also 6d. each head as mileage for so driving them. This encourages many in idleness • for while they can procure a living thus, they will neither fence in their land nor assist others to do what they are required, but are continually watching the poor man's bullocks or horses, to grasp from him what he has been working for the day previous. This is one of the bad workings of the Trespass Ordinance; and I trust that the Provincial Council will see the necessity of altering this clause in such a manner, that the. person, whoever he may be, shall not be allowed more than common trespass, as on pasturage, unless he is wholly and substantially fenced, whether he destroy his neighbour's cabbages or not. Let men who write such attend to their own duties, cultivate their land, and, above all, fence it'"substantially, then they will have but little time to slander other.'. With regard to the writer who signs

himself " M." ,in your, paper of April 7th* had he Jeft the constituents out of the question, he would be acting more wisely, as he is only, ope person;; and if he can farm nothing, better than/ cabbages, the sooner he leaves off farming the better. I am, Sir, yours, &c. , George Ai-LEir. '