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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume 1, Issue 9, 30 November 1872, Page 3

TO THE "EDITOR OF THE STANDARD. Sir,Will you allow me through your largely spread columns to make kuoWyi to luyfeUon settlers in Poverty Bay, the way m which I was treated for protecting my own property,, viz., ten acres of fenced land in Ormond. Three Ormond settlers respectively owning a few head of cattle, think proper to reserve their own fenced land for crops and grass purposes, and, regardless of the damage their cattle .do me and,- my neighbours they are turned out alongside my fencing which they rub out of line,,and partially break and destroy. I, in self defence, with a neighbour’s assistance, (who is also, of course, a great sufferer from the trespass of the said cattie) drove them about li miles from my paddock, and left them on the public road within the distriflb of Ormond, for which I am summoned, and after some conflicting evidence which really reflects nq credit on the plaintiffs I am mulcted in the sum of £3 and costs, amountingtoabout £6 10s. ; so for the futurre I am neighbours’ stock, or pay rather heavily for the privilege of protecting my own. —I am, &c., A > ictim.