HYDE.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 238, 26 September 1873, Page 3

HYDE.

(To. the Editor of the .MoijtfT Ida Chbonicle.) September 10th, 1873. Sib,—Looking over your paper of last week I see a letter from some party at Hamilton, complaining of the intolerable nuisance and damage committed by cattle to paddocks and gardens. I regret to tell you that I. have the same story to write about. During the last seven years that I have cultivated a farm, I have actually put up with so much damage to my crops, grass r paddocks, and fences, that it would amount to a nice little pile; and when I have complained to the owners, I only got the grossest abuse; and yet 1 have not brought one single person to Court for damages. Howeverf I intend to commence it next Court day at Hyde. Only last night ten head of cattle belonging to four different parties broke over my hay-yard fence, five and a half feet high, and almost entirely destroyed a cock of hay which I had for my horses. Just fancy a mob of cattle on the top of a cock of hay, and it pelting snow during the whole time. 1 think it is high time that a check should be put to a multitude of people keeping from two to six head of cattle, of all sizes and ages, running at large, destroying and eating everything about them, none to look after them; i and when you complain you only get abuse. Last summer I kept a man at twenty shillings per week to keep cattle out of my paddocks, and to keep fences repaired. He got so tired of it he gave it up. He no sooner • made up one gap than the cattle broke down another, and so on the whole year round. There are four persons here who keep cattle • and never look after them,, so that the sooner an example is made of them the better.—l . am, etc., ■■■',.■ •...'..'■'. Settler.