ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 221, 4 September 1862, Page 5

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENT.

.SLAUGHTERING MCE.V3KS. (To the Editor of the Dajlt Times.) I $y>'; —1 hnvc long K*en <!tf*:roti3 of .se>iin£r the I " Si.iuirbUT Act'" in force in 01-i-o, and have ofu-n I ur}it»l iv M&riMiy, &h atr<nllnx some protection t rt i tlockf.Wiiers and thorn haviu- caiUo ou the hundr.j!-. ! 1 t->uk th; fir.<t opiwrtunity of nuking the fullowin;/ I apjili -iti'j.i, <i;tted my own residence, where I iu-t«»'s»-.i *\v.iz)iU?Tinz: — *'T'i tlic Clerk ot 'th<.> Ke*i!»iit Magistrate's Court, Tokomairiro. •' Hut, —I dti'tre tuobbtiti a • Ueea«e for S'au^hfrintf," acyirJin^ to.the twin of th« Act, I he,: tliere- {•>&, tfwi you will nx-ori my application fur the Kiine. A fH'rson p.\!k-l, I suppose! on l«ha!f of t!n> fi,v ver:»!ij.-Ti», an i cx.iminc-1 the stockyard, ami state-.! ! th:it ii ■A-inM 1 K » newssary for me to attend fK-r*unai;v, which I 'ii! fit y^reat inc'j:ivi'u:vinx'. Mv aDjjlic-itlv.i wai refilled as not• tle*:ribinjr my st i?k"aril. Nov.-, in the ;,!~>,r.' of any pnnt^l "for -i. iir.v are the jiuKhc to d*-.-, ri!-» a stookynr-.i in vrr 'n..' .' Must We .-.tat.- th... cii,tan.N» fr.>:u tut- Post { -, or what in-f-irfi-itt..-» can we urive. The j -ice* tnyw uiv •■*.. ■ky-i?>! vnry w,-11, and I was the: to ghv any iaf.»rrni»i>;i. I rj>i!-iicr -u.-h ptieri!" ohjc • )i;s most vexation*, t«' 1 iinj t'»ir.o;i )i«ilr,:4'!'k* ileuia*! i toiloawav \vl?!i;ir;v : ><>1 t!n- Aft uiL'ht have :t<>(»m'i!JHht»>i. and" that the sy-fiii <>f rctr.awiintr a ca<c> whieii uji.-ht !jc settk-i vi one-, r:i Ist objectituiablv. Tiie .ti'i.T application from the Woolslir-l was v.Uo r.ffusei, and that t-veaiug there was no in«a ur-on thi; river. A dicker reiuarked that they di-l '•' not rcjuir,' a license to kill sht-ep in th ir tents."* .S.>iiic* <!is,-rction i-i ncces.-.ary in th>*se times. I :i!n, Sir, Your olxfdieat servant, Thos. Mi-uray. Mount htew.Tt, 2') th Au^., 180*2.

(7V t.'tf K-ti';rofthelD\u.v Times. —Few renters of your paper ctn overlook the jnli.-ians ■•»:»« prdnpU'd by circum»iane^s «hi--h ii-; v:i-iii!fi!lv aj>;K?!tr in your c>>!umn«, nor fail i • apppf.*i:<te ymir c;,ri.-i-tent Hivacacy of all matt-;---U-ndiu'i to public Utility. In y»ur U«w> of tfii.-s <liy aj>pears a par.t'^rrij.h j cillin"- forrctleciion, a!lulin/to the enormous issue nf (<<ur huudritl vvrit> from the Suiireme Court. Xoue i-an d nilit tiie var'ou* ri'ivers.- cin-umsujrij s so tni'y s-'.stel. t'l.it have !ei to this te-ut far al! hnve felt the 'Jeprt>/r».-j ? nor nir ira> th.-re a juncture t>» which thf ("jri.-ttau m-.tto of " lu-ar a:i 1 f>rbfar'* U more :;pp!i.;:iM.;au.l if gru.Tou.-,ly aot-d on in the spirit .sutr-.'-ttl inti^t re-u't in s.an-tantial kiuTit U> ult ptrtics, ;i n<l cinnot fail to n-:ili-..- your just antlcipali >n«. Yourn. kc, M"asly Thackkk. ll^po-strcH, September, 15**2.