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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2838, 1 August 1916, Page 4

1 LOCAL AND GENERAL ( -h^-^ The Manuka, which arrived from Sydney yesterday, brought 223 bags of Australian mails. There will not be an English mail for New Zealand this week. Detective Carney arrested a man last evening on a chargo of theft of a number of motor sparking plugs, the property of some person or persons unknown. An interesting point was raised at tho Napier Court yesterday, say 6 our special correspoftdont, when a ease was heard in which Joseph Mahoney, managing director of. Mahoney and Sons, Ltd., was charged with cruelty to a horse, in that he permitted an employee to work the animal whilst it had soro Bhoulders, otc. Counsel for the defendant submitted that the Act in force hero did not provide for a charge of permitting cruelty, and that if ,tho charges were to be made under the head of "permitting," it would first ]>o necessary to amend the legislation in conformity with tho English Act, that specifically makes permitting cruelty nn offence Jtr. S. E. M'Carthy, S.M., reserved his decision, but indicated that he considered permitting a horso to be ill-treated equivalent to actually ill-treating it. Wo want every thrifty woman to know by happy experience that "No Rubbing Laundry Holp" is a wonderful laboursaver. "Washes all • clothes spotlessly cloan without rubbing or injury.—Advt.