LAYING POISON FOR DOGS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XXI, Issue 1072, 19 June 1890, Page 3

LAYING POISON FOR DOGS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—Allow me a little space to brinjj under the notice of owners of raluable in and around St Bathans the fact that poison has' been laid in various places close to the main road, nnd two dogs, if not more, have been poisoned duriisr the week. The wholesale laying of poison in this way without any apparent discrimination is, to say the' least of it. a most devilish act, and the party possessed of so little ' gumption" as to do it is certainlv liable to a heavy fine. To lay poison without iriving public notice i's illegal, and even providing due notice were given the poison must not lie laid iiithin two chains of a main road. Suspicion points to one party who ought to know better, and he may rest assured such diabolical work is not likely to go unavenged.—l am, etc., St. Bathans 13th June. - KENNEL. ■ : -» : ESTATE OF THE~ LATE T. PINDER. TO THE EDITOR. Sik, —As a creditor in the estate of the late T. Pincler, of Naseby, I should like to know if a statement of the cost of winding up the estate is likely to be furnished to the creditors, as several are under the impression that it has been an expensive piece of machinery, and are likely to make enquiries.—lam, etc., CREDITOR. THE UNION HOTEL, HAAIILTON. TO THE EDITOR. Sib, Please allow me space iu your columns to make public a piece of injustice done by the newly-elected Licensing Committee in refusing to grant a license to Mr. M'Kenzic, of the Union Hotel, Hamilton. I should like to know why they refused the license, for the majority of people hereabouts can see no other reason than paltry petty spite, inflicted bya body of men whoprobably are surprised at having the power to grant or refuse a license or anything where com-mon-sense is required. The police report was favorable ; the house has been conducted for the past six months at any rate—as well as most up-country hotels ; the liquor I can myself assert was not so bad ; the house is very well furnished, with a good billiardtable, piano, etc. Why, then, was the license refused ? Was it because Mr. Al'Kenzie can't profitably continue to send his man round with the bread cart, or do the committee expect a publican to be a total abstainer ? They are rare, gentlemen, very rare. I have it, sir, I have it ! This intelligent committee are demoralised by " Poverty's " doleful letter, aud are determined, " as rabbits must not just now be poached," to make up the difference somehow. They are clever, too, in their own little way, for they have increased one license fee and refused one. Imagine, sir, the look of dismay on their grave features when one more gifted than the rest points out that if one of the licei.ses is refused altogether the expenses will very nearly swamp the lot of the others. Ha ! Au inspiration from another : •' We will increase the others." That helps to make up the deficiency, you see, for no one imagines for one moment that Airs. Tannahill's business has increased to warrant this increase in the license. But that deficiency had to be made up. I understand a petition is being largely signed by the ratepayers and residents of both Hamilton and Sowburn to the Alinister of Justice to have the matter inquired into. It would be a good thing if these up-country licensing committees were done away with, as a great portion of the more intelligent part of the country community don't care to bother abont them ; and it is a positive fact that a lot of the people of Hamilton boasted that they would return all their own men so that the fee should not leave the place. Comment on this is needless. I would point out to the committee that a man cannot sell or lease a business in a month, and tor a lot of newly-llcdgcd committee-men to act in such an arbitrary manner is a piece of presumption, not to say a cruel piece of injustice—l am, etc., COUSIN JACK. Sowburn, June 16, 1890.