PAHIATUA BULLS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2452, 15 November 1886, Page 2

PAHIATUA BULLS.

The amusing Pahiatua correspondent ( of the Hawkes Bay Herald discourses as follows on aome'of his well-known herd:— "Since my last letter, in which T told you that our "bull" operations were pretty successful, and that the market hadbeguntorise, I nave been .on .my travels, On the 29fch October I. went to Woodville, and a very Bad lot of rascalß I found there. Nobody had tho heart even for "bull" operations. Everyono said that everybody else was quite "fly-blown" and that nothing could restore animation

.ill si 1 ■ to trade• feud behold, many shops goibg up i n W thelastfoff months thereto balers i have been almost.doubled in 'number 1 accommodation, and selling power' gene' 1 , But the oustomers '!»*• tot I doubled, Thw'-may l 8» doublo Mfr j times,; some of them, butthej do fM M ' double. Hence the wails.*! nuty nofc ' here that the-nW bridge between Wood« ville and Pfllmerafbn will be when you receiVe'this, and so no mors trouble with the ferryman. Well, to return to Woodyille. I went along with' a happy herd. The bovine odour of Pah]. atua was absent,, The strong bulls of Bashan no longer alarmed me., I*; was indeed a happy sensation to more the harmless hairy human fawj'of the horny-Jianded. flow transitory are' human joys lln a few minutos I reached i the R.M. Court, and bofnre I could get a f stock whip, or a couple of dogs, J was in I the middle of all my pld friends from i Pahiatua, The great Mogul was there, I and a fino white bull who fortunately 1' seemed to know me, and a whole herd i of others, Never in my life djd I. see I such a scene. I told you in ma last how H they all rode on each othor's fitta, how thoy bought sections on tics, fenced them on tick, how tho men they ought to I pay they didn't pay, and how these men */j 'in turn got tucker on" tiok and wouldn't .. pay tho storekeepers, who in thoir turn got their goods on tick from the merchants, who i suppose ride on somebody elso's back in their, turn. The day's I business was the culmination of one of '•* ! our little parties, They are all pushing each other. One began to push ina, but the R,M. had his dogs on him, and separated us'before any harm was done. In many cases, howover, the KK did not interfere, and one .bull got hisKorn into the great Mogul to the tune fltfeo. It appeared that the latter animal had moro grazing paddocks than he could depasture, and sold one. Soon after' he sold it to another party for a'uracil higher price. Hence-claim, £SO ; defence, agent's negligence, Claim allowed. This ;.s very sad, as we all thought that the Great Mogul was our champion animal, and' intended to have him represent the district at the great show in Wellington called the [Representative Assembly. -The lis; white fellow, who generally is seen grazing near tho last mentioned, was also very badly horned; a matter for regret, as he has. some good points, and we should bo Bony to condition. Nearlv all the R. M.gftime was given to Pahiatua squabbles. ™fter this I had to go back to Pahiatua. There I found that the bulls were all back boforomo, and were busy gotting a pound built; (this is a joke; I mean of course a police station; sorry to have to explain my allegory), which is all very fine, but they will one day regret that pound wEa some or them get lodgod in it. f&H vS 9 W? Ilas ' mm & his tawro at the R.M. Court, and was pointed out tho exact point where the pound ought to be. ..No■■money wanted ~ he would give the secfcion-or his friends would give it. Tho negotiations on the part of the Govorliment were''being carried out by ono Mr Shearman, to whom presently ontered another local bull, who dragged him off iiofeiw wlou to sea ht section, in quite a different part of tho town, which ho too would • Kivo, with a paddock in, just out of love for the Government, and' not a bit because he wanted a.night's lodging handy at his door,. Shearman moked a littlei perplexed, and in a minute-<>r two the Makaretu Cash Store Man rtf pro . polled him a mile down south %i an offer of two sections and a paddock. I saw Shearman later with a hole in his hat and sevoral pockets gone':'' The bulls he said, meant well, hut they wero rather rought He thought they imagined he had the power to fix where the Post Office shouldbe, andl hence all the anxiety on everybody's part to have it aext door to them and nowhere else." !