The Standard. SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1874.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 118, 3 January 1874, Page 2

The Standard.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1874.

“ We shall sell to no man justice or right: We shall deny to no man justice or right: We shall defer to no man justice or right.”

A NOTICE in our advertizing columns informs sheep owners, and others interested in sheep, that they are PARTICULARLY REQUESTED to attend a meeting to be held at Blair’s Hotel on Wednesday the 28th January, for the purpose of discussing the proposed new Sheep Act which is to be laid before them. We have been favored with a perusal of the draft, and, although in a crude state, it contains many clauses which are particularly applicable to the special circumstances or this district; but a notion creeps over us taat l! Scab' Act, would, if passed in its present shape, be a more correct name for it, as it deals with little beyond that disease: Foot-rot, for instance, not being provided for. If the infliction of “ fines ” are supposed to be efficacious in either stamping out or preventing the presence of Scab in sheep, the proposed Act should keep the East Coast district pretty clear, for they stand out in a rather formidable array in every clause, varying in amount from sixpence to one hundred pounds I As the “ Bill ” (properly speaking) has not been placed by its promoters in public circulation, we do not feel at liberty to make any further comment upon it; but as it is perfectly impossible even to “ discuss ” the principles contained in a3O clause draft bill at a public meeting, we would suggest that all those who are interested in the question, —and they are pretty numerous —should have an opportunity in the meantime, of becoming acquainted with it; they would thus be enabled to consider the proposals at leisure, and possibly to express an opinion on their merits. Otherwise, it appears to us that the intervening period of time, will be uselessly wasted.