MR TAYLOR REBLIES.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 324, 12 December 1888, Page 2

MR TAYLOR REBLIES.

* pTo.'THB Editor <] >>. £i nj — I n answer to Messrs' Jackson an«l \. 13. W. Brothers'" lefcterg,', re 1 impounding 1 _„ cattle by the yourig.rDeveys,, I beg tp>state that a, week prior Jo^puUing the - notice in tlie Tb AROH-rand OeUnemuhi ' News t went to all my neighbours, Mr Jackson included, anil tolil them that as about 'so head of cattle we>e grazing on my laud I should have tb take; steps to put a stop to it, but I. did not wish to impound them if they Would keep them off. As one of them told me to pound awayj I-wa9 obliged to take the course I di I to protect raysslf.. When I came here I brought some cattle, from the Thames, but settlers here were jealous of other cattle coming on the run and wore frequently complaining. t When they did so I sent my cattle to the sale, an>l sold them without; reserve •, and/ made a resolution (which! have kept) not to have any more, until ,1 could fence them in on my own lan.d. On the Monday after the notice appeared, in the News theDeveyg called at my bouse and I* told them not to take any cattle to the pound that day, but to go "to Mr McOabe's and ascertain what cattle he bad got.as he had arranged for his that morning, Mr Thaxter had also done the same. MrE. W. Brothers called at dusk and proposed to arrange Tor hi*, but owing to previous unsatisfactory transaction? I had had with him, and cheek I -got from his son, I deferred doing so till next day. I called on him on Tuesday and made a conditional arrangement, but as the conditions have not beon complied with, that agreement has been cancelled He stated the Deveys impounded the cattle on Monday evening and that he saw thorn collecting them from othpr sections, but he told me the same evening that he had not se ( »n them that day. It was early on Tuesday morning when the Devey's told me they took a large mob off my lan-1, probably before Mr Brothers vras out of bed. He probably afterwards saw them collecting them off the section he referred to. He u«sed the word ?neak in his letter I think. That word would apply to those who turn their cattle on their neighbours' land after Hark to feed on their grass. Mr Jackson charges me with collecting manure off the roads an>l private property. I challenge him to prove his charge re r.he latter In collecting from the road I have only taken a portion of what my land was robbed of, but as he has lan;» mobs of cattle feeding on all the unfencil private property in the district, he would do well to observe the precept he qnofoJ, and also another from the sam<" book, ' Oust out fir^t the beam ont of thin-a own eye,' etc., then he would not hnnt tho cattle of his neighbour-* that presume to show their faces in his neighbourhood and try to monopolise the whole of th« run. I shall try to fence in my gia<s as soon as I possibly can, but in the meantime cajolery or intimidation will not prevent' me from taking !e<al means to protect it. lam not a good slock driver, or I would not employ anyone to do what Mr Jackson designates my dirty work. I shall treat any letters on the subject in future with the contempt they deserve. I am, etc, Thos. Taylor* Waihou, December lOth, 1888.