STRAY CATTLE.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 663, 19 August 1876, Page 3

STR AY CATTLE.

Sib,— lt i« all rery well for ' Old Identity' to complain of the grumblings ofhis neighbours th»t their gardens are nerer safe f»ouo prsdatorj cattle, «nd to s>tj it is for owner* of garden* and laud to kerp the cnttU out, but I would ask him bow this ii to b« done in a townchip. Tradesmen* boys, acquaintances, and many othe » come to a man* house both belon- and af-er dark, and how few of them f ake cure to secure ihe gite after them. Only three night* ago a person came to the hoaoo, lfffc my gate op«n allor dusk, and the first iaMmation I bare of it i» to find early peas eaten off, bods trampled, and any general umouut of damage done. Surely people h»inf{ in a township should not ba subjec ed to this nuisance, for the sake of a pitiful £8 rained by the dep attiring fen, ' 01(1 ldantity' aski wbat about th.t town b.lt? Wlit this, that th« Town Board may put it to a better u a than letting it lie kilo for a puck of hungry tliiering half- star ml covri and hor«e» to wander o?«r. There is uitioh, rery rauuh of it, that let on long lefi*e«, »ay, not leas than 14, or wore than 21 yours, would bo ranted ior building pur. poses, for sums thnt would make the rltpaafuring license revenue look small indeed. Old ' Identity' may h ive a very good opinioQ of himself xn<l his clan, but thnnk heaven, — and I»ay it wliohiru probubly lived in the district us long as he— we hftTe had too too large an infusion of now blood nmon* us: not to progress with the tunes : — I am, &c, FBOQKISS. Hamilton "VTcst, August 17th, 187 G.