THE FENCING ACT.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 3970, 13 May 1870, Page 4

THE FENCING ACT.

To tho Editor of the D4ily Southern Cross. Sir, — In your issue of the 30fch, you appear to think your readers have had enough about fencing for the present. lam not going to stir that subject, as the most that I ever heard asked was, the very modest request that cattle might be reared and fattened on all the lands in th« province, whether public or private, without so much as- "by your leave, " The owners of land, are now told, by "Impera Parendo" that " the gumdiggers aho work on land not their own;" and he asks, "Will you propose that they be fenced in on their own land (if they have any) as well as cattle ?" From the flippant way this is put he evidently thinks it a clincher ; and I admit at once that men aie of infinitely more value than cattle, and ought fco have more consideration shown them. I hold that a State ought to do all it can to give the means of gpttmg bread to all its children ; yet afc the same time, I may be allowed to hint that any one digging gum on land not his own, and without the consent, or against the will, of the owner, would, if introduced to the Judge, be rery likely to find himself at Mount Eden, and most certainly lose the gum. There appear to be very queer notions, however, in this end of the world. F. [This closes the correspondence on the fence question for the present. — Ed. D.B.C.]