AN AWKWARD GAME.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 534, 17 February 1876, Page 3

AN AWKWARD GAME.

Sik,— Is there no Act or luw in the Waikato by winch certain hours are set ajnrt daring persons may dnre cattle thiougb the punc-ipal thoroughraros? Ou Tuenduy evening wnile returning home I was somewhat alarmed at seeius; one of our lespecfcjblo butcher*, on the euit side of Hamilton, driving two bu'loi-ks— you might nlmost call them mad— for they g-etned to tmr Ihd Tery ground up as they weufc along, gruntljr to the clangor of tiro ladies— ouo the wife of ou© of our moat esteemed re^ubntß, with her two children, who had aairocy tuno lo got nhrou^ti a. fence close by when one of ;hrs» ooasts >3ai)io full foice against the trails, winch, h?,d they net been pretiy sticn**, would hnve co ne down, much to the danger ol the parties enctosi-d while the oth^r lady made u rush into Mr GUrdintr's, the saddler. I tlnuk ioiiietlung ought to be dove to save driving these brutes through tlie streets at the most dangerous pirt of thtj day. Several of these animals bave had to he shot belore anything could he done with them. By maeriiDg ths übore will greaily oblige —1 am, &,c, -i A<K)i