WHO IS TO REWARD ME FOR MY LOSS ?

Temuka Leader, Issue 1504, 11 May 1886, Page 2

WHO IS TO REWARD ME FOR MY LOSS ?

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —1 want to ask you a question through your valuable paper: How am I to get my loss recouped, and where ? I worked in may garden this last summer and got a nice lot of vegetables for my winter use, and I felt very proud of them, too. I thought how nic>they did look, and that I could go and cat when I wanted any for my own use —that I should know what 1 was cutting and eating—and 1 felt proud of myself about them, thinking what a great help they would be to me and rav family in the winter months when such'thing* are hard to get as I am situated. I had two nice beds of broccolli cahhug“. and one bed of another sort of cabbage, and a large bed of niee carrots, on which I counted very much. I used to feel pleased when I looked at them to think that land my family would be provide, with winter vegetable-', but t»> my -orrow when 1 got up on Easter Tuesday morning I saw a large cow feasting on rm winter vegetables. She had entirely spoiled them for me, and wbat she had left is only fit to give a pig. What she had not eaten sh* had trampled on and spoiled. I hare three small children, and I am sorry to say they are motherless, and I am hard pushed to get a living for them. Now, sir, the roads belong to the Road Board, and they should see that the roads should be kept clear of such cattle as are at large. It is a neglect of duty op. iheir part, J think, that has occasioned ray sad loss Can I get any remedy on that point ? I will if there is a chance, because it is their duty to keep the roads clear as well as to repair them. The feed is getting short on the roads, and cattle will not starve if they can see nr smell anything eatable. Hunger is a sharp thorn, light where it may. Our fences will no' stop hungry cattle that are, turn'd ■ ut at night to get a living where tin v can while we are sleeping. Tim roa's are full of them day ami night. Now, Mr “ Fairplay,” just show your possession of what you call yourself, “ Fairplay,” and call at ray place an I see the damage these back road cows have done to me and sny family. I will warn my neighbors to watch their gardens of a night. 11 Fairplay” might just call and see for himself what these buck road cattle have done at Thomas Eden’s, Woodbury. Wailti Bush.