HASTINGS (TAPU CREEK).

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1884, 6 August 1874, Page 3

HASTINGS (TAPU CREEK).

(feom oub own correspondent.) August 4 Foil some weeks past two dogs, one of which is black with a slumpy tail, the other a sort of brindle or dark chesnut, said to be the property of a milkman near Tararu, has been sad havoc amongst the young cattle, pigs, and in this locality. Hardly a day passes but these two brutes leave one or more victims deadordying. Several shots have been fired at them, but I am sorry to say with little effect. A few days ago they were seen to watch a number of goats which had taken refuge on anarrow cliff of rocks; and yesterday they destroyed a neighbour's goat within a few yards of my cottage. jN o thing is safe from them unless kept in a closely fenced paddock or shed. Hunger does not appear to ho the cause of their mischief, but rather a grown taste fur destruction, as besides a number of young cattle and pigs, they are said to have killed between fifty and a hundred goats. The Little Jessie men are getting on .rapidly with their low level, going through good blasting country. As to the Bullion, it is so unusually hard blasting, that it is costing from five to six pounds per foot. It is sincerely to be hoped that they are not groping in the dark as to the direction they are taking for the bottom of the old Full Moon shaft, as it would be rather an expensive blunder for the shareholders, should they afterwards find that they are ten or twenty feet off their course.