WOOD V. MACKIE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2166, 27 May 1886, Page 4

WOOD Y. MA CK IE.

TO rHh KDU'OU. Sin,— Kindly pnrmit mo through y»>v valued paper to publish a few facN le tli c*ho J. Wood v. 11. Moclrie, reputed in your i«sue i)f the 13th. The subject of tli action (a black collie bitch) came into mv I>os»ession about the middle of Aprd Lust, laving then boon about To Aroha for now i time apparently without any owner ai' 1, along with a l<»t umro dog», had bocom" .v great nuisance about the> back yard of on» of our hotels, from whence one of niv b>>> ■> was asked to t<ike Iht, which ho did, and «he was kept by and followed him until tb«i '3rd of May, when Mr John Wood _ claimed her. Not being satithed with his skit--merit I went t<> the registrar and finding that no female dog or the name of Wo ><l »]>pe<tied in the book I ru<rist*>i ud and i)"t the coll.ir on her. Air Wood llien Mini monod me, and in the meantime Ileunivl that BhH had Iwen sent to him months ago, and because it was a female dog he would not take her, telling the c</.ichinin wln> broughtherheretodi.wh.it ho liknd witli it. I did not think the ownership worth testing, and tlierefore sent the bitch to him, together with cost «>f Miminon-, j tniHtiug thus to end the matter, lml so f u from that he went to couit, and <>n oith in the witne^-bnx stated that ho \yd hci registeicd befoio sho cune into my possi^ sion, wlu*reas thf» following now appe.uN on the register:— May -Jth, i. Alackie, blitk female cattlo dog; May stli, J. Wood. black female •"hwp dojj, ajred imc yeai, Mic result being as ipported by you, upon which : I refrain from im^whu 'my comment, and remain, yours obediently, KOnKRT Mackii:. Te Aroha, May 19th, 18SIJ.