CORRESPONDENCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 7841, 10 January 1887, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

TRESPASSERS. TO THE EDITOB. Sib,—l have lately gone into the country to reside, and, being desirous of keeping cattle out, I had a barbed wire fence placed round my allotment, and a gate to ensure privacy. To my amazement, though the barbed' wire is. effectual in keeping out quadrupeds, it is perfectly ineffectual in preventing the inroad of bipeds. It is holiday time, I know, and a little license might and would be allowed, provided permission was first asked, but when your garden is calmly trodden over, your fences scaled, your fruit and flowers stolen before your very eyes bj well-dressed respectable-looking people, you naturally think it is time to protest. Surely the Auckland people have "been taught bettei manners, or, if not, they ought to have been. If those things are done by grown-up people, what may we expeat from the youngsters 3 I have seen green fruit torn from the trees and strewn on the ground, being too unripe to eat, and this both at Kawau and Motutapu, by visitors, well-dressed people, at holiday time. Even in Auckland, private gardens have been entered this Christmas, and fern trees ruthlessly destroyed, tc decorate a butcher's shop or a bazaar, s church or a conventicle. "A thing ol beauty," like a fern tree, is thus destroyed for the sake of half-an-hour's supposed enjoy ment.—l am, &c., Cms. January 6. 1887. SIR GEORGE GREY. 70 THE EDITOB. Sib,— people of Auokland will surely bestir themselves, and see that Sir Georgi Grey's presentation to the Free Library ii suitably acknowledged. Such manificenci should provoke unbounded gratitude, anc every one benefited by the gift, (and who ii not?) should be desirous to perpetuate hi: regard for tho donor. If this generosity o Sir George Gray was his sole claim for oui gratitude, we should, perhaps, have beei more profuse in our thanks, but &b he hai throughout a long life laboured in ever] way, according to his light, for the advance ment of the inhabitants of the colonies ii which he haß resided, we take his everj effort a little too much as a matter of course, and have of late been even so remiss ai to permit him to be rewarded, alas, will "more kioks than half pence!" Before it it too late for us to repent of our injustici I would most . respectfully suggest that th< inhabitants of Auckland should see that i statue of Sir George Grey be placed in somi commanding position in the city, and alai that his portrait (painted from life, and no copied from a - photograph by some residen in China or San Francisco) be placed in th Free Library. Who would refuse a shillinj or two for suoh a purpose, even in Buqh time as these ? Not—Yours, &0., Employee, Auckland, Jan. 8, 1887.