GAME LAWS.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3358, 21 April 1868, Page 4

GAME LAWS.

I " Happy are they that hear their own detractions : and can put tbem to mending." — Shakespeare. To the Editor of the Dailt Southirn Caoss. Sib, — As the seaion for pheaaant-ahootiog commences on the lsb of May, perhaps a few remarks on the subject of the new game laws may interest a portion of your leaders. 1 find, by an Act passed in the last aession of the General Assembly, a Government license, of £2 10s., is now required of the proprietors and occupiers of land — which appears most iniquitous and unjust. We all know the trouble and difficulty the farmers have had in acclimatising and protecting the pheasants on their land, and the destruction and damage done to their cropi by these birds. Is it not monstrous, therefore, that they should now be asked to pay a tax of £2 10 a. to the Government for shooting on their own farms ? You might a* well tax them for killing their barndoor fowls. Last year the Gorernment license was £5, and proprietors of land exempt. It wonld be well to inquire why the law has been altered, and if it has been amended by the Northern or Southern members. If the former, they should be brought to book by their constituents ; and if the latter, the privilege and permission to shoot orer the estates of landed proprietors in this province should be withksld.—l have, &c., Spoetsbun.

A pnaon was recently called into oourfcfor the parpoie of proving the correctneM of a doctor's bill, ciras asked by-the lawyer whether "the doctor did not make several yiiiti after the patient -was out of danger. " • • Ho, '' replied the witnesi, ' * I considered the patient in danger as long as the doctor continued ail TuiU,"