HALCOMBE

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1676, 13 April 1904, Page 24

HALCOMBE

(From Our Own Corresponded)

; Farmers in this .'district have much to contend with, hut when the losses are inflicted upon their flocks by marauding dogs, the farmer’s life is not a happy one. How many, even after a hard day’s work, can permit "nature’s sweet reu etprer” to do its work when the watch dog’s honest barb, or the distant '‘yap” * indicates more trouble among the ewes P A friend of mine who has suffered much recently discovered two dogs at their cruel work. Seventeen sheep were dead and many more mauled and maimed. The enrs (for it. is mean dog sport) were, captured and their owner found, he having advertised their loss and a reward for tlieir recovery. The owner of the sheep, even under provocation, being "white” and kindly disposed, the question of damages wag amicably arranged without appeal to “his worship.”