ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

New Zealander, Volume 8, Issue 634, 12 May 1852, Page 3

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Robbery op Pigs and Pouj.tiiy. To the Editor of the ~Nnw Zkalander. Sin, — I am so apt to feel, while we h ye a free Press, to appeal on our behalf on all matteis ol giievauca to be redressed, (hit we are all ri^ht. But I fear [ may be tresspassing too mm h upon your kindness, in giving foith my murmurme^, if they must he so called; (or we hive not yet ai rived a' lliu Glorious Liberty of Republican Ft awe, where the Pr?s>s is gagged, and no man can express his own f.ce sentiments. Now, Sir, what is to be done to check the growing robbery and plunder of our pigs and poultry. I am not one of those to say on all occas ons, " Oh, it it the Maories;" but I much fear that they aie the pirtie 1 ? who have of late purloined so many of our porkers. One gentleman in my own neighbourhood, within the last few dnys, hid thiep yiluible sows taken from his place. A pirly neir Mount Albeit, * very short time since, had a splendid sow s'olen : and a poor man at Epsom, iiot many weeks ha' k, had about f 3 woith of pigs stolen iiom him. Now, some attempt should certainly be made 'o cheek this growing evil ; or, I fear, we shall, one and all, begin to civil at the expense of our well-equipped and militaiy-looLin^ Police Forco. If then pigi are stolen by the M.ioiics (who take them, I have no doubt, moie to improva their own breed of pigs, than Irom their aciu il money value), they are transposed immediately, hy c moes, up the country. If a rcwaid of £3 was offeied in any

such case of toblnty, would tli it lie elkft.vu I <.'id could not our Niuve Police be tlio moms of hai.s mitlmg infoi ination oi mi> li lobbeiios up tliv? v.ukmis lt'vcia, amongst the v.iiiou* tuboti? Could it .ot he made Icnoiwi to tlie Naiivc'-, tlxiu a punishment will 1g inllided upon any one h.irl o.u in«v or possessing btol n piopoiiy, Kiiouing it to bo sto en ! It tlio owl mcieaseh, .is it his of Kile, L din convincrd we bliall require a ni^ht I'oliee, oi ,i voiunl.uy foico ioi tlie piotOi-liDii oi our piMjj'Ml) ; <>i) 1 f, lor one, would (lucetly enroll nnsell and \iLo my slwi.e ot the duly, uuplfas.uit as it mi^ht be. We chiefly w,mt the shoies of the v.iiious. nvi'is \v>itch d, m> tli.i must be the mode ot i>ellin^ i id of pigs, i'ouluy is more easily got lid oi. Trusting tli.it borne attention will be paid to Jiis growing evil. — I am, S i, &l., Old Practical. Epsom. M<iy 3, 18J2. Wlf H'l 1IFM" fWn r itm '1 111 PI 6~111 ll~M~t *l W"J~^rf lTßMf^i*i WTH WHY ill ' WHl'iT^i Ml "A'W^liil l^ I 1