WORN OUT HORSES.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 May 1910, Page 4

WORN OUT HORSES.

The Duke of Portland took the chair at a great meeting in Shoreditch (says tho London correspondent of the Melbourne Argus), the first of a. series .to ho held ithroughouifc tho country to demand the complete suppression of the "horrible, disgusting, and un-English trade," as tho duko called it, in aged and worn-on!|j horses, exported from England to the Continent. I have written before on the horrors of this business, which Amounts to 50,000 horses ia year. Its absolute suppression is being demanded on the ground that restrictions and official regulations aro useless. After tho Daily Mail's correspondent investigated the facts at Antwerp last summer, the Board of Agriculture undertook special action, and the same correspondent has now been over again to witness the results. Hero is an example:—lsG horses on one boat from Hull which crossed in a storm, one died and was thrown overboard ; another was killed by tho captain after breaking a foc.it; 31 arrived dead.; 12 had their throats cut in the boialt or on the An/twerp quay ; four were so ill that ■'they had to lie carried lin waggons to the stables where the butchers buy them; the rest hobbled the three miles. This is a typical caes.