UNFENCED LAND AND STRAYING CATTLE.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVII, Issue 4180, 6 January 1871, Page 5

UNFENCED LAND AND STRAYING CATTLE.

To the Editor of the Wefkly News. Sir,— We have imfenced fern and tea-tree land at the back of our paddocks. Oui neighbour has the same. Would you be good enough ,to inform us whether, if oiu cattle stray upon his imfenced land, it is lawful for him to drive them off in any diiection by putting through his paddocks on to another run, or driving them towards a large bush, whereby there is danger of their being lost altogether ?- We are, &c. , Inquirers. [The owner of the land upon which cattle may be trespassing i-3 not supposed to know who is the owner of the cattle ; and is entitled to drive straying cattle oft his proparty or crops m fhfi Nvay most convenient to himself, provided lie does not wilfully drive them into a swamp or pyitty. -whereby they ■would be endangered. The owner of the cattle ought to keep them at home ; and the owner of unfenced land must run the risk of having the rights of his property occasionally invaded by straying cattle while it remains unfenced. — Ed.]

To the Editor of the Duly Southern Cross. Sir ( — Permit me to draw attention to the item contained in your English telegrams of Monday last, viz. : "It is asserted that a fleet of Russian ironclads were at Nicolaiev. Great enthusiasm prevails in Russia, and larpe bodies of Russian troops are assembled in the South." This paragraph would of course }earl one to loelieve that the Russians had already ceased to adhere to the treaty of 1850, by having a fleet of "ironclads" at NicolaieV, which is in the Black Sea, as they are only allowed a limited number of men-of war of specified tonnage and armament. But on reading the following paragraph contained in the H<rald of the same date the fact is only made more astounding : "It is reported that Russia has large bodies of troops .South, and fifty ironclads at Nikslavoi. Gortschakoff's action has caused great enthusiasm throughout the Russian Levant." Both paragraphs lead one to believe that there is a large fleet of ironclads massed in the Black Sea in some part in the South of Russia. The town mentioned in the Herald's paragraph I cannot find marked on my atlas ; but the "fifty ironclads" makes the matter of some importance, particularly when we are told that the Russians have a " Sebastopol" in the Pacific ; and on referring to the atlas, and looking at the Amoor River, we find at it 3 month a town named Nicolaievsk, which, I conclude, is the said Pacific Sebastopol, and I think the wdrd "Nicolaiev" has been substituted for " Nicolaievsk " in the transmission of the telegrams in Australia. If my version of the matter be correct, there are "fifty ironclads" stationed at , ISicolaievsk. — more than the English possess at the present time, the total number of ironclads owned by England at present being 47. Perhaps some one of your numerous readers can account how the Russian Government has managed to build a fleet of 50 ironclads in the Pacific all on the quiet ? — I am, &c, Midshipman, Mount Eden.

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