ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 927, 5 April 1879, Page 2

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE OAMARU Wilt Sir, —A warning to all and yd. passing along Yare-street with talmS dogs, or they may find them dying- 1 ; 1 from ordinary poison only, but.-Soma® mixture of broken glass, oatmeal, ® salt, mixed to a paste, and lki&into? on a vacant section of Y.ire.-street. M sir, I am a dog tax payer, and would® to know whether there is* not a rei®| for such a dastardly, cruel, mean,® unneighborly action, or not. A Lover op Ani.malv | April 2, 1879. TO THE EDITOR OF THE OAMAPX JliltSir, —Having seen in your report of t* sitting of the Harbor Board yesterday tW the Board refused to grant my appfe»* for damages which my vessel had sustain on the statement of the Harbor Master * the Prince liupe.rt had got adrift dragging her anchor holding the S.W. M and that while re-laying this anchor-"® Prince Rupert's lines to the wharf being® go—the vessel fell athwart the Waup"? and opened up some old sores." Tb"" Captain Sewell's statement. Permit give yaw mine. The Prince Rupert drag anchor, and had been " worC j? actly as she was when the mishap tookpjl three days previous, and remained three days after. It was the WanganW® dragged her anchor, and whilst her nwjW were being re-laid, that vessel fell a ' the Prince Rupert, and did not open i>P , sores, but split eight sound stanchi® o3 carried away thirty feet of rail. Cap Sewell says that, had my crew been atte ing to their duties, they could vented the mishap. So they could; tM „ the mishap he describes ; but it is not a clear to me how a crew of a vessel safely at her moorings can prevent M 1 vessel which may be adrift, and »' w on at the time, from, Salting down and doing considerable damage. 1* L Sewell been as attentive to has dutiw crew were, ai\d put a line out to tlie . astern of the Wanganui, on that vesse quarter, there would have been no ® and 1 would have been saved the c. which I think is fairly chargeable Oamaru Harbor Board. M. Grant, T, linc rt, faster Prince [Our correspondent has made a ation from our report. The word 3 he found i", .

italicised are certainly not to l .- ne( } m report, neither were they . J Captain Sewell's letter.—Ed.