CORRESPONDENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 485, 31 July 1871, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

[Wo ns not responsible for our Correspondents'

opinions.]

~.R;MT- -ACCIDENT, KYBER PASS \ To'the Editor of tbi^iKG Stab. ym,—in your issue of tli(?1 th instant, there appeared a leltor signed " Syfli^Hy>' but I iim afraid, by the tone of the lofFfci, that the writer does not himself possess over much of that commodity, or he would have written in a better spirit than he has done j he appears " Very glad to see that that some kind and charitably disposed persons are endeavoring to raise a subscription for the poor bereaved family, and doubts not but tbat many will cheerfully respond to the appeal." I am very glad also to see it, and that I have had the opportunity of " responding," but I doubt very much, by his style, whether " Sympathy" himself has cheerfully responded to the appeal. " Sympathy" asks permission to say " that a subscription does not really meet the case." Pray what does ho think would do so ? If the owner of the horse " was tried for manslaughter," and even sentenced to several years' hard labor, would that, think you, lessen the " poor widow's sorrows pr her ■wants ?" But I fail to see what the owner of the hors3 had to do with the accident at all, for even the driver had no blame attached to him by the jury for " carelessness or negli-

gence." " Sympathy" also states that " the horse was without blinkers, which doubtless caused him to ahy." Now, it 13 very plain to see that " Sympathy" knows very little about eitker horses or blinkers, or he would also have known that a great many more accidents occur through horses hearing strange noises, and not being able to see from what cause, or through the blinkers suddenly coming off their heads in the streets, and thus causing them to bolt, than through their being broken in to go " without blinkers" at all. Apart from all causes, the tamest and quietest of horses will 'sometimes, quite unaccountably, shy, and even bolt. —I am, &c, Chabitt.