DRIVING LAME HORSES.
[to the editor.] Si a—Will you allow me to draw public attention through your valuable paper to a practice which is becoming painfully common heie. I refer to the driving of lame horses in traps about the streets. On seeing this brutal procedure for the first time, I naturally thought its occurrence was accidental, and felt inclined to share in the apparent anxiety of the driver to get the poor beast home to rest as soon as possible. This, however, was evidently not the cise, as the animal has been worked regularly since. Another trapdriver, who seems to have been fired by the example of his e miracle, has taken some poor lame creature out of the hands of the horse doctor, and, I suppose for the sake of some extra shilling or so to be made by it, drives it in double-harness with another. Rather unpleasant consequences are apt to follow when such cases arc brought before a magistrate’. I hope you will find space to insert this leit'-r and that the hint will be taken by those Tor. whom it is meant. I am, ic., Humanity. Ku mara, Nov, 18, 1881.,
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Kumara Times, Issue 1605, 18 November 1881, Page 2
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