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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1893, 30 October 1913, Page 5

Lady Williams was a passenger by the Waliine for the south last evening. An expert in sleeping sickness, who is connected with the Liverpool School of Tropical Modicine, was at KunooTn charged with cruelty to a donkey. It was alleged that the donkey, apparently paralysed, lay for over a week in a field, without shelter from the sun and tormented by flies. For the defence it was stated that the donkey, which was regularly fed and watered; was under the influence of a drug and suffered no pain. The ease was dismissed, with costs against the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, whose solicitor intimated > probable appeal. Lady Hkrdinge has received .£70,8G8 (mainly subscribed' by the ruling princes) towards the proposed Women's College and Hospital at Delhi. In Germany, when the yote of the jury stands six against six, the prisoner is acquitted. A vote of seven against five leaves the decision to the Court, and in a vote of eight against four the prisoner is convicted. ' A prisoner named Montgomery, who was being conveyed under escort from Howrah to Lahore, India, for trial, picked the pockets of the police officers and. jnmpinff from the moving train, escaped with .£27 10s. Following the proposal for a tax on bachelors in France, the society "La flaw Francaiso" suggests that every male citizen who either has not three ehildren alive or who has not roared three children to the ago "of twenty-one should be taxed .£1 fe. a' year for each child below the number of three. This would apply to both bachelors and married men. Such a tax, it is estimated, would produce about ,£20,009,000 a year. Tn London (lie Act for securing to policemen a weekly rest day is now in full operation. ii; has necessitated the addition of 10K men lo the Metropolitan and 90 to the City Force, at an increased annual cost of ,£'l(it.Soo and .£12,!121i respectively. In Liverpool, Manchester. Sheffield, Newcaslle-on-Tync, and Cardiff the Act is also in full work, and in all the eountv borough it will be in force by next iTnlj'. In eleven nf the 50 counties arrangements org also complete.