A CORRECTION.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 393, 23 September 1874, Page 3

A CORRECTION.

(To the Editor.) Sib,— l beg to say that in your issue of the 16th inst. I observe a local that requires correction. It is as follows :—": — " We are informed that Mr. Walter Miller has commenced the wholesale impounding of the cattle found ou his newly purchased country in the vicinity of Waitahuna. He generously offers to purchase the stock so impounded rather than take legal proceedings against the owners." Now, Sir, the above statement is in great part incorrect. The real tacts of the case are as follows : — Having to muster my cattle, for the purpose of sending some to market, I met with my stockman upon Scrubby Point, and other parts of my earliest purchases, and there found a considerable number of cattle unknown to me. I mustered them and put them into a paddock ; but not one of them was taken off my newly purchased country in the vicinity o£ Waitahuna. I then sent word to Mr. Sutherlaud, informing hmi of the above named cattle, and that gentleman was good enough to come out and take charge of his own stock, and also to assist me in identifying the others. Feeling Very averse to prosecute any one for trespass, and believing that therespective owners of the •tray cattle might encounter great difficulty in preventing their stock from straying back to my property, I made an offer to purchase the same at fair market value ; not that I am anxious to purchase great cattle, but under the circumstances I considered it the best way of settling the difficulty amicably between all parties • and in dismissing this part of the subject, I hare only to add that if various parties can keep their cattle at their own proper places, I have nothing further to complain of. The next error in your information is that the cattle are impounded. Such is not the case; they are only put into a paddock for safe keeping until the owners

turn up. I may further state for your information that I have sustained a good deal of loss and inconvenience from trespass upon my property j not bo much in the loss from the grass consumed, as from parties continually entering my land in search of a beast or two, and the difficulty I have in drafting out my own stock when wanted. From the latter causes my stock are very much harressed, and prevented from improving in condition. I have only to add that I cannot afford to allow such a state of things to continue. By inserting the above in your valuable columns, I shall feel greatly obliged. — I am, &c, Walter Milleb. Roxburgh Station, Glenoro, 21st Sept.