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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 154, 21 June 1876, Page 4

The cure of a horse with a dislocated neck at Auckland reveals a new phase of the veterinary art. The horse was tied by the head to a strong post and well whipped. Ths struggling and pulling back of the horse under the punishment had the effect of re-arrang-ing the neck. The horse is now doing well, and his recovery is certain, through he will only be fit for light farm work hereafter. Commenting upon the probable work of the session, the Lytteiton Times pertinently remarks :—" What are the probabilities that the several important measures which do not form any intrinsic part of the Abolition of Provinces scheme, but whioh do urgently demand careful and immediate treatment at the hands of the Legislature, will receive their fair share of attention during the session now about to commence ? It seems scarcely possible that anyone taking a fair survey of the present political position can anticipate that any measure, otber than those connected with the proposed constitutional ohange, will obtain the anxious consideration aud minute discussion indispensable for the proper manufaoture of laws. Shoddy statutes, no doubt, there will be, probably a century of them. Statutes iv which lawyers can find as many holes as there were in the stage garments of* Euripides, statutes read only by impulsive legislative infants, statutes not read at all —these are the sort of laws, which will in all human probability be foisted upon an undiscerning public as tbe net result of the Session, apart from the final settlement of the Abolition question. Those who entertain hopes that several other matters whioh have been, named of late, and on some of whioh bills have been promised by the Ministry, will he dealt with otherwise than perfunctorily and hurriedly, seem to be building the castle of their expectations upon the most uncertain of sands ."