KYEBURN.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 88, 21 October 1870, Page 3

KYEBURN.

(From our own.Correspondent.) October 17. To use the words of a commercial editor, " mining matters are quiet and money tight." The weather for the last few weeks has been very favorable to all pursuits. The agricultural interest here is decidedly backward. The crops are not yet all in, and as yet there is scarcely a vestige of verdure in the gardens. I cannot help noticing that several gardens which last year were rooted out by pigs and goats, are this year abandoned. These pests, which are more numerous than dogs in this locality, are allowed to run loose and destroy anything they come across. I am myself living witEin an enclosure

five feet six in height, with a five-barred gate closing the entrance, yet I can never leave the place for half-an-hour without finding the garden half destroyed upon my return. Pigs get through the gate, and goats over the fence. It is a great shame, hut it will not pay to travel to the Hogburn to prosecute a person for allowing these animals to run loose, when the party prosecuting will be at considerable expense and the prosecuted fined half-a-crown. The thing is a farce, and the only process which will answer, and which I for one intend, to apply, will be powder and shot, and a little poison for the pigs. I am sorry to have to record a circumstance which reflects but small credit upon the community, and which is likely to result in serious consequences to a lost and degraded member of the Kyeburn family. Between the evening of the 11th and the morning of the 12th some evil-minded scoundrel went to the claim of two hard-working miners, which is situated in the creek between the post-office and the foot of Telegraph Flat, cut the handles off most of their tools, and then threw the whole into the creek. Tin dish, forks, shovels, and picks, • shared the same fate, but the box, which contained gold at the time, was untouched. I have, however, been given to .understand that the scoundrel was disturbed in his work of destruction, as a person whom I shall net mention was passing at the time the saw was in operation. I can give you no further particulars at present, as I may defeat the ends of justice. I may, however, inform you that the perpetrator of this villain "us action is perfectly well known. Had this happened in California, the culprit would have ridden out of the district on a rail. By the time this is in print, you will have been enlivened at Naseby by a shanty case from here. Now that- the police have started, it is to be hoped that they will rid the neighborhood entirely of these pests. I must write you upon the social and moral condition of. this place; but I must own that I feel rather diffident, not only from my inability to do justice to the subject, but also from the difficulty of writing upon such a small community without incurring the risk of bem* personal, and which I particularly wish to avoid. '