STRAY CATTLE.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 539, 2 November 1875, Page 5 (Supplement)

STRAY CATTLE.

Sir, — Can you or any other resident in Hamilton inform me Where tile public domain ia on which our trustees propose to depasture the town herd, — -where the grassy common where cattle may roam and grace without trespass ? Surely our Trustees do not intend allowing cattle to stray all OTer our public throughfarea, to be a pest and a nuisance to eTeryone who has a lore of neatness and cleanliness. Hamilton, City of Com* merce, are your streets to be let as a run for stray cattle ? Is every man who wishes to add beauty and shade to your streets to be annoyed by having his fences broken, and young trees destroyed P If a man wishes to cultivate his small plot of land is he to be compelled to put up a fence that would stop & town cow who may be compared to Micfc Free's father, who when he got his head in anywhere went the whole hog ? I think our Trustees should rather encourage individual efforts to beautify our rural town, and strictly prohibit all stray cattle in the reets. Who knows what injury may be done by one old cow that nothing short of ft four rail fence will fltop ? I myself have suffered injury And loss that nothing can repay. I should refrain from mentioning them but I know I pour my grief into the ears of a patient and sympathising friend. You know thoSe'cabbagea of mine* and young peas, and early potatoes, how I excited your editorial appetite the other day by describing how soon they wouM* be ready, and how I would get Farmer Raynes to bring in a nice sucking pig, Oh, what a joly little dinner fancy painted ! Oh thoße cabbages ! That is not the loss I deplore, but I will tell you i— l dreamt the other night I was in heaven, or rather very near it, (I fancy I hear Bomeone say " that fellow is just as near heaven now as he ever will be,") but there is one consolation our nearest neighbours or worst enemies cannot deny ns thinking of it, if we never get there, and ft man may be none the worse if his thoughts run an that direction sometimes. I said I dreamt I was close to heaven or the new Jerusalem, when I was awoke by a well known voice ', it was toy wife who said "come William, Jimmey M—-nM — -n s white faced cow has eaten all the cabbages. —I am, &c, Hobticultubaiist* Hamilton, October 29th, 1875.