NEW FENCING ACT.

Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 315, 24 April 1878, Page 2

NEW FENCING ACT.

The following suggestions from a correspondent as to desirable amendments in proposed now Fencing Act, may lead all interested to consider the matter for themselves. Section 9. The first part of this section proposes “ That any substantial fence of any of the kinds mentioned and described in Schedule B [that is a full description' of all the legal fences in each of the former provinces] shall be a sufficient fence, within the meaning of this Actjjmm It is suggested that the words following those above quoted should be struckout. Section 10. It is proposed that the words limiting the selection of fence,when any particular fence has been proclaimed no longer adapted to requirements, to such as are enumerated in Schedule 8,, should be struck out. Section 11. In lieu of clause 11, which is framed- to deter the planting gorso or sweet-briar, under a penalty up to £2O,■ unless with neighbour’s consent,- the following is proposed. Section 11. “Where the owner of adjoining lands objects fo the planting of gorse or sweet-briar on the boundary line, it shall be competent for his neighbour to plant such gorse or sweet-briar on bis own half of such boundary ; always provided that he may be compelled to properly trim such fence at least once iii each year, and to root up and destroy any young gorse or sweet-briar which may grow on the adjoining lands in the vicinity of such fence.” Section 17, will give power, if parties cannot agree, to party wanting to fence to do so, after two months’ notice df open land, and after six months’ notice if bush land, and to claim one half of cost. It is suggested that, the notice should be limited to one month and three months respectively. Section 25, which gives power to person creeling fence to clear bush six feet along entire length of fence, it is suggested should be enlarged to twenty feet.

Section 22. Any fence erected by mutual consent between adjoining pro-'

>L.II I i.iMW ■>!» I lJ^lM^*J»»illl^MW^»W^afcg^tf3S3 ’"pcrties shall, for all purposes of this Act, 'be a sufficient fence. Schedule B. Taking into consideration section 22, there are a sufficic nr variety of fences described for the Provincial District of Taranaki, to suit the requirements of the whole colony, presided No 1 is altered to read, “ Base, of hank not less than 3 feet 9 inches, width of ditch 3 feet 3 inches, depth of ditch 2 feet 9 inches and height of bank 4 feet. Also, No 3 to show maxitnhm distances between the several rails, and No 4 distance between wires, and sizes of wife ’used. . The Hawke’s Bay Herald , referring to .the strong feeling which has been raised •in Poverty Bay, through the high upset prices fixed by the Auckland Waste Land Board, on the Patutahi block, says—“ We 'believe that the best way to promote the •settlement of the country, and to give struggling settlers an opportunity of bettering their position in life, and of making homes for themselves on the Crown land, is to sell these lands exclusively cn deferred ■payments, with stringent conditions of residence and improvements. We maintain that, least of all, should the -best lands in the possession of the' Crown be exempted from the operation of this principle. We certainly do not want the revival of a syftenvunder which only such lands-as the : spurs of the Huahine were sold to struggling settlers on deferred payments, while • such lands as the Pourerere block were ‘sold to wealthy sheep-farmers for cash.'’ The Herald thinks that if Government are pressed for money, it would'have been better to go to the Assembly with a deficit, tSSff to have put up the Patutahi block for ‘ cash. There are 282 medical practitioners registered as entitled to pursue their prefessibh'in New Zealand,

Strangers' and country settlers coming 'to Carlyle, are very often at a loss to know ’•which is the best and cheapest General Drapery and Clothing Establishment in ■the ' district. R. A. Adams’ Cardigan 'House, offers special advantages that can be met with nowhere else in the district. „ lie keeps the largest and best assorted stock of every description of drapery •goods, imported direct —and from the best 'colohial houses; which, being bought on the most advantageous terms, and having 'thorough. knowledge of the business, enables him to offer goods of sterling quality fit prices that cannot be improved 'on by ariy Other house in New Zealand. Every article is marked in plain figures, from which there is no deviation ; so that inexperienced, people are as well served \ns the best judges, the terms being net ;casb, .without rebate or abatement of any ; kind. Note the address—R. A. Adams ; .Cardigan House, nearly opposite Town Hall, Carlyle.— advt. HolTowaifs Pills.— Excellent Pills.The resources of medicine arid chemistry 'were long and fruitlessly tried before they yielded a remedy which could overcome 'disorders of the stomach and nerves till Professor Holloway discovered his purifying and tonic Pills. They are the safest and surest correctives of indigestion,heartburn, flatulency, torpidity of the liver, twitchings, nervous fancies, despondency, low spirits, and declining strength. Holloway’s Pills supersede all irregular action in the body, and so strengthen and support the system that disease departs, and leaves the patient not at all shaken. This is the grand aim and object of medical art, to regulate disordered functions Without damaging the constitution by the remedy; ‘and admirably is this end attained by Hol'ioway’s Pills.

THE STUMPING TOUR. .Sir George Grey’s tour lias at length drawn to a close. The tnisenief he has done will live after him. He will have set an example to Ministers who may succeed him, when he has vacated, or is turned out of office, to pursue the same “ high-falatin,” expensive, and most undignified course. If anything- cun tend to demoralise the people more than another it is the method pursued by our Premier of mailing, what he terms, the “working man” discontented with his position. He is most wickedly setting class against class, and holding up men who have made their way in the colony to contempt and derision. The “ poor man” is the objoqt of Sir George’s idolatry ; the rich man the evil genius who is permitted to rule the destinies of the two Islands. If the whole of the speeches made by Sir George Grey during his stumping tour were re-printed and carefully perused, there would not be found a passage in any one of them which, to the reflective and intelligent reader, would indicate the speaker to have any clement of the true statesman in him. The inhabitants of New Zealand, with Sir George, are a down-trodden, trampled-on, crushed, ground-down people. To be told this in a colony whoie the franchise is the most liberal, where the least attempt to infringe upon the rights of men is met by tnc most determined opposition. In a colony, too, where there is a free and intelligent Press from one end of the island to the other, we say that, to tell men they are serfs, and that they have no power except they break out into open rebellion, is not only mischievous, but such assertions are as recklessly -wicked as they arc absolutely untrue. Had any English statesman, fifty years ago, been guilty of delivering such utterances, he would have been impeached *as an enemy to the State and a subverter to the British Constitution. Sir Julius Vogel as a politician had pith and marrow' in him. ’Whatever his errors, they were those of a statesman ; but he was no inflammatory spoutor,-with the ability only to make people discontented with their position in life, and to be envious of those who are above them. The time will come, avg hope, when the sophistries of our Premier will be exposed and all his fallacies laid bare. Now-a-day even the grand stump speeches of a Gladstone cany little weight with them when subjected to the crucial test of intelligent newspaper criticism. Sir George (Troy’s ambition seems to be that be should be looked upon as a kind of liberator, who has come forth to champion people’s rights,without any regard as to how many or how much others may be wronged by his proposed reforms. Concede to Sir Geo. the powers ho asks, •when the people will not bo long •in discovering that a more arbitrary ruler could not iiave been placed over them. -— F. B. Standard. ,