HOUSES AT LARGE.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 135, 29 September 1871, Page 5

HOUSES AT LARGE.

(To the Editor of the Mount Ida Chbonicle.^

Sir, —The recent accident to the child of Mr. E. H. Carew, which by a m'raele only failed to result in fatal consequences, should, I think, be sufficient to draw public attention to a great nuisance and public danger which has obtained from horses being allowed to wander at large in this place. Barely a day elapses that my nerves have not been shaken by seeing children nearly run over by horses without any apparent owners, but which parade and gallop about the streets lords, as it were, of all they survey, without let or hindrance.

Such a system is, in my opinion, an extremely vicious one, and steps should be immediately taken to remedy it. No doubt a Corporation would be the proper power to interfere, but as the Naseby people have shown themselves hostile to such an institution, then the duty of protecting life and property necessarily falls into the hands, and becomes the duty of, the police ; and sufficient power is, T think, jjiven to them under the Town and Country Police Ordinance to put a stop to the evil.

It may be said that the children should be kept in the houses, and the danger complained of would thus be avoided. Considering, however, the relative number of children and horses, and the circumscribed area around the houses of the town, it is manifestly more easy to restrain horses than lock up children. At all events, horses are not in other towns, nor should they be in this, allowed to roam at large, and in the interests of the public I call upon the police, in the execution of their duty, to interfere and put a stop to this great and growing evil.—l am,

Pater Familia.B