Correspondence.

Evening Star, Issue 4283, 17 November 1876, Page 2

Correspondence.

JWe do not hold ourselves responsible forthe opinions expressed by oar correspondents.]

CRUELTY TO HORSES. To the Mitor.

Sm,—Encksed find a “Home” newspaper catting, which you may find space for, and, as a good example is always worth following, it might lead to a benefit oh'the part of many a worn-out but once useful horse at daily work in our streets.— l am, &c., Watchelt. Dunedin, November 17, 1876. Sir,—l was much pleased, on passing acting Charter-house stieut the other day, to see notices plucefl on a prominent part of the hoardkgsreepectmg overloading horses or working them when unntj through wounds or weakness. Anyone who is in the habit of passing by Guildhall frequently must often have been shocked to see the miserable specimens of the equine species standing In the yard, and wondered how men could be so lost to feeling as to make them work in such's condition. It is cause for thankfulness that the City police look so ebandy after such hardened 1 (dmraotczs, and 11; ust that their seal Juao good aCa < nße ( .wiil be imitated fur and'wide.—l'Am, «o., 1 BiTßn iWr?W. -’.V