FURIOUS RIDING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 229, 9 December 1874, Page 2

FURIOUS RIDING.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —That the above is so dangerously prevalent in the township is a disgrace to whoever has the power to prevent it. From the Music Hall to the township boundary at Roebuck street is little else than a race course for the use of half drunken Whites and Maoris, particularly iu the evenings, and for not a few “ onee-a-week ” snobs, who, on Sundays, especially, display their uncouthness in a tearing, sprawling, gallop. Possibly the said snobs, not knowing how to sit and handle a horse, iu a walk, trot, or canter —either through early privation of the exercise, or natural incapacity for auy other horsemanship than the monkey-like trick of sticking on and balancing a s raddie —somewhat commendably hurry out of observation. That might be held as some excuse, were not the danger to pedestrians, and to the children of those who dwell on the main street, so great. I venture to suggest the use of the police for the drunkards, and the eximpleof horsemen for the snobs ; or, failing both, that the Road Board appoint a judge, starter, and staff, and collect a toll on each race for the benefit of the road. — Yours, &c., Viatob.