FURIOUS RIDING.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 242, 19 September 1872, Page 8

FURIOUS RIDING.

(^o tfie Editor.)

Sir,— -Perhaps that grand audience, your readers, will Sear with me while I write on a subject of more or less interest to all. " Charity beareth all things &c." Good ! but charity also righteth wrongs. Is not furious riding in towns and frequented ways, one of those matters which need to be suppressed ? While we calmly bear some evils, we must beware of inviting injuries by supinene33. Shall the law on the subject of furious riding be mil and void because of our supineness 1 " That 'ere wor o'most a case for the

doctor, but we han't no doctor now though." Such might have been the expression of an Englishman .of the old school, had there been one standing on the ground opposite the Athenaeum at Waicahuna on Monday IBth. September 1872, aboyt the hour of 4.50 p. m. And what more, what about it? Well, only a little incident, the veriest trifle. I'll tell you. Two horsemen going Havelockwards ; one keeps the road, the other the footpath. They go fast. A little girl leads her almost infant brother. She hastily sUpis off the footpath with her charge to avoid danger. The horseman passes the Athenaeum, still on the footpath, and at full gallop. Immediately after he had passed, a juvenile of small pice comes on to the path from the north ■west side of the building named. Lucky for him that he did not appear till the equestrian had passed. The horseman keeps the path, on, on past Cook's store ; on, on, and at last pulls up, or is screwed off at Aujd's bakery. Mounts, and takes the footpath for a score yards, and then turns on to the road.. Good ! no harm has been done. And yet, and yet there Plight haye been ; but of course it wasn't to be, you see, for the little heads and hairs are all duly numbered. But why allude to Uttle heads and hairs ? Well you see, at any time there are plenty of little folks about, but this day was fine and they played their way homewards, and there were a good many still going home. Gentlemen, streets have turnings and there are bends and angles even in the the grand path at Waitahuna, and it is narrow too, and was not made for equestrians. No ; not even for such at night. No ; not for any such, be they drunk or sober, tight or only fresh. Gentlemen, should you go to Charters Towers — a grand name — or the far off Roper River, and strike lucky, you run on the magnificent plains of Australia, but by all means ayoid furious riding, particularly in frequented ways, and you will do right.— lam, #c, Abpellaot.