CAMPBELL'S COWS

Auckland Star, Volume VII, Issue 1966, 29 May 1876, Page 2

CAMPBELL'S COWS

(ro THE EDITOR.)

Sir,—As I happen to livo in the immediate vicinity of Worfolk-Btreet, I was amused at the ingenious way in which Campbell, in your last night's issue, tries to get out of the charge laid against him. I have repeatedly seen his cows driven to and fro in front of Mrs Grainger's premises, not in the same street she lives in (for unfortunately there is barely safe walking room for bipeds there, especially after the late heavy rains,_ and I am sure if cattle were to attempt it they would either be bogged or break their necks), but across the only useful work the Highway Board has done for the neighbourhood during the last eight or nine years, the bridges in Lincoln-street. Now, why the owner of the cows cannot have them driven round the Richmond road, the main road of the locality, instead of across bridges built expressly^ for the convenience of foot passengers, certainly leaves one with the impression that it is only done out of a bull-headed obstinacy and determination to annoy. I would not have troubled you with the above, but I do not like to see a woman, when telling the truth, given the lie direct.—l am, etc., A Resident in Spbingbank.

(To the Editor of the Evening Stab.) Sib,—May I again trouble you with a few remarks ? If there were a little more manliness among us, and a little more of doing as we would be done by, and a little less envy and malice for we know not what, there would be little cause for a respectable and lone woman to have to appeal either to a magistrate or the public papers for protection and assistance. Law, order, and decency are repugnant to the feelings of a certain section of the community, and .there appears nothing so delightful to the visions of both sexes as a really respectable woman to operate upon, because they know how very much she will endure rather than make her grievance public. If, hjwever, she happens to be that rather unusual thing—a fearless woman— Bhe is immediately assailed with every dirty missile. Touching these Campbells is something like touching tar, and this is why I have never complained before. But whether it be the unjust behaviour of road boards, or the vicious annoyances of such people as the Campbells, it is not by any means to their credit that they give such cause of complaint against them. It is no doubt very mortifying to these men that there are such things as road boards, and would be|still more so if the said boards did their duty. I affirm all that I stated in my letter of complaint, and could have said a great deal more. However, the Campbells and their cows are very well known on this side of the city. This closes my remarks upon the subject. —Yours obliged, Edith F. G. Gkainger, Norfolk-street, Ponsonby.

For the future in the distance, And the good that we can do,

(To the Editor of the Evening Star ) Sir,—As there has been so much controversy about Mr Lupton and his "poor labourers," I am happy to inform you and all who may be interested, that he paid the whole of us our wages last Saturday evening, 27th inst. At the same time, would you please inform us whether there is not a law in existence to the effect—That, if a sub-contractor fails to pay his " day-wages" men, the chief contractor is bound to pay the same. By answering the above you will settle a diversity of opinion prevailing among the labouring class, and oblige—Yours, etc, One op Lupton's Men. — [So many law points arise in endeavouring to recover a sub-contraotor'a debts from the chief contractor that it is next to impossible for working men to enforce payment. A con-

tractor should, however, see that the Bubcontractor is paying his men's wages.— Ed,