HIGHLAND DEER FORESTS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1930, 4 March 1885, Page 2

HIGHLAND DEER FORESTS.

A gentleman of the name of Winang, an Amepigan who has made a large for* tune by successful railway contracts, in Russia, is the lessee of a large:'deer forest In the Highlands of Scotland. He is a peculiar individual this Winans; ho can tolerate no rival near his deer. Some time ago he made an effort to clear out a whole village of clachan, because the inhabitantscame.between the'win]} and his nobility. For once, however, money was not omnipotent, the Supreme Court l) e !d that tjjjo American ppuld, pot dep'opujate/a pupd glen at He lias' taken' the" case to' the Gourt of Appeal, where probably lie may .faro better or worse, according as one's lights may lead'them to;judge, but meantime the poor crofters remain' in possession, Ono of them, however, has a lamb, and this lamb has crossed the boundary of Win™' fprpst, Bpdhp!tf.pJ , gppp"'fp{i tho lamb pr rather t]|9 lamb's pwneji. The pppr man has' l ;been s'uinmpned fpj trespass, pan ill defend actions for trespass' pr fqr any other ofence againßt ricji'.rn'en, and it is possible th.6 kunb ma> have-tp go, But will ouy readers try to realise a state of things pf this kind/, carrjed, on |n an old country like Scptland, and carried on by a KM who has no Qomwekion witj) Jt, or Us history, or its association's;'.beyond his leasing a tract of couiitry for a few years, and, by virtue of-, ill-gotten money, vowing lie will make Jt'.a desert, That is the sort of person thatjqads poor and oppressed men to commit crimo There should be some law to. deport him and every one like him, out of4h& «OUh« try, as we seek'to eradioate noxious vermin of any kind.. He may goto to ono day—The Citizen.