CORRESPONDENCE.

Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 119, 5 February 1879, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE CATTLE AGGRESSIONS. (TO THE EDITOR OF THS TEMUKA LEADER.) Sir, —Will you kindly allow me space in your colums to show the state of this prevailing grievance. I have just received a letter which reads thus, so far as legible by mo. Temuka, Jan. 31st, 1879. Mr Erew, Sir, —I hear and see that you are in the habet of sending your clog driving sheep of the, and by so doing you have lost mi 15 sheep. I- therefore wish payment for said sheep forthwith. Pro Boyd Thompson, G. Smith. P.S. —If you consider I have done any damago or harm to you with sheep being their, you have yours sincerely. B. Thompson. I won't comment on the above at all, further than state that the charge is groundless, and the epistlo contemptible, but the position that I occupy being about the middle of the Government township, is a most exposed one to cattle trespass, a source of injury which is increasing in this locality. My fence, which was of the most substantial, and according to the ordinauce, only two years ago, has suffered severely day and night, and to maintain its wear and tear, and losses connected therewith, amount to as much as the original cost, and for one following the calling that I do, to get up pounding appliances to control the mobs of cattle that wander here, would be expensive in the extreme. The remarks on this subject are far from being pleasant to me, but the circumstances call so loudly for an ebb tide in the matter, that I must put forth what effort I can, and solicit those having power to control it to make a move.—l am, &c, A. F.

GERALDINE SCHOOL,

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE TEMUKA LEADER.) Sir, —Permit me to correct a few statements made in your issue of the Ist February on the annual meeting of householders in the Geraldine district, held in the school-room on Monday evening, the 27th January. It is stated in your paper that I said there had been twelve weeks holidays given besides odd half days. This is incorrect. What I did say was that during the year about twelve weeks had been given, and a good part of that was made up of half-holidays. It appears from the school register that seven days is made up of half-holidays. This means fourteen days to any chili living at a distance, as the parents do not think it worth while to send a child two three or miles for half a day's education. 1 asked at that meeting by whose authortity these half days had-'been given, and I was answered by the Chairman of the late Committee that they had given no halfholidays. In respect to the school register, as the items were given, I failed to see their correctness, as there is no check to them that I can see. _ In respect to sewing, I did not complain of the workmanship, but what I did cmplainof was that the sewing was done on no wearing apparel. It is shown in clause 92 of _ the Ordinance that it is shaping, sewing, knitting, &c, all on wearing apparel, from a night dress to a long stocking. I would add to this, in my opinion, that the school was more proficient in the making and sewing of A these articles under the superior care of the three last mistresses. I learn this from the lady parents of the children attending school. Alex. Kelman. Geraldine, February Ist, 1879.