UNEDICATED MAN AND HENQUIRER.

Wellington Independent, Volume I, Issue 19, 4 June 1845, Page 3

UNEDICATED MAN AND HENQUIRER.

To the Editor of the Wellington Independent

Sir, —As several persons are desirous of knowing the merits of the poaching affair on my station, to which you referred on Saturday last. It will save me some trouble if you will insert the following particulars in your independent columns, relative to the last transaction of this kind which I witnessed, and which occurred on Friday night 23rd last month. In the afternoon, say 4 o'clock, two soldiers of the 96th regiment in company with a civilian named James Gursely, left the Barracks, Lombardstreet, in the direction of Mount Victoria each man carrying a gun in his hand, and this was not the first time by very many, that these red coated gentry have annoyed me in different ways, so that my brood mares and horses cannot get rest by day or night, and has been in great danger of being shot. I was determined if possible to catch some of thess night marauders, I got up at 4 o'clock on Saturday morning following and proceeded to my ground in Evans' Bay, and after waiting until daybreak, I saw the same three persons coming out of a scrub with their guns, and I followed them quickly home, but they out ran me. On my arrival I saw Sergeant Dumper, and requested the names of the two soldiers just returned to barracks, and who had been out poaching all night, in order that I might teport them to Captain Eyton, he promised to give me them in a few minutes, but ne has not done so up to this time. This looks very curious, but doubtless the crafty Sergeant has kept a military loophole to creep through. By the bye, I had almost forgotten to state , that a portion, if not the whole of the rabbits these men shot, were sold and raffled for at Rowland Davis' the same evening. I believe it is not customary to shoot tame rabbits under the impression that they are public property. Yours, &c, &c, &c Robert Jenkins.