PROVINCIAL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 27 May 1907, Page 3

PROVINCIAL NEWS.

STRATFORD. {From Our Own Correspondent.) A most interesting ease came before the Magistrates on Saturday morning, aid one showing the simplicity of the farmer, ft seems that the poundkeepcr had a white steer impounded, and a stranger to the town, who was out on a riotous holiday, having spent the necessary for a continuance of his recreation, or ruination, seeing this steer in the pound, and evidently wanting au owner, conceived the' idea of raising funds by tttiUng iJie flteef. Seeing a farmer close to the pound, he got into conversation with him, and eventually, after a lot of hard bargaining, in which the farmer got the price reduced from £2 to ,C 1 Gs, the bargain was clinched, and the spree eon- ; tinned oil the stranger's side, and the I fun commenced on the farmer's side. The farmer claimed the steer from the poundkeeper, showing him a receipt, but the poundage fees were wanting, and until those were paid no steer could be produeed. )t seems there was a bit of had blood betwecu the farmer and the poundkeeper, aud in an short time high words endued, and rash actions were just about commencing when the police arrived, and an explanation led to the arrest of the : whilom cattle dealer, who. hy the way, had just been convicted aud discharged 011 a charge of drunkenness. He had got through the £1 (Is, and on Saturday morning appeared on a charge of obtaining money hy false pretences, and was remanded till next Friday, the 31st inst. People sometimes hunger too niuchafter bargains, ami in their hunger and excitement overlook their ordinary business precautions, v:.Ci so tail in.