CORRESPONDENCE.

Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 9, 8 September 1877, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

[Our correspondence column being open, no responsibility can be accepted in respect to opinibns expressed by Correspondents.]

TO THE EDITOR. . - Sir,— Believing in the good your paper has hitherto doiiej I take advantage of its columns', to place this before the public* Through a Maori bull breaking into my place, my few. cattle for" the first time were, at large, unknown to me, until a neighbour kindly drove some of them to the house and told me that the remaining two had been run over by the train. One poor beast, ii valuable young cow, had half her hind quarter quite torn away* and it took me till next morning to get her a distance 'of one mile. Your paper once remarking on a similar occurrence, said., that it was daylight at the time of the accident. This also happened in daylight,- } at tile tiine the 5 p.m. train reached Jackeytown on Monday last. How easy it is for the guard with one or two passengers who have no interest in this quarter to make the occurrence appear at head office an unavoidable accident. As far As I can learn most of the accidents of this kind that have occurred 'are credited to one man, the driver of the Black Dwarf engine. It is time* that a searching enquiry should be . made, or a wanton rivalry may spring up between him and those other drivers who have hitherto been noted for their avoiding such cruelty. I have been warned by a few interested persons to let sleeping dogs-]ie. If this letter,- assisted by other influences be the means of awakening them (the authorities that be) to fence the line to cheek this mangling of cattle it will be some good done to one that has suffered. „: ' GrEOKGE RICHAEDSON. Foxton Line.