PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 57, 11 March 1907, Page 2

PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

Silt,—"Dux" in las first attempt made it quite obvious that ho was no gentleman. Now I doubt if he knows the definition of man. Should ho ever " teach the young idea to slioot," I trust he will use more discretion tlian he does when wielding his pen. It may interest the irate " Dux" to know that the police arc strong supporters of the P.O.C.T.A. Siciety, and aid the noble cause in every way. He will hardly have the audacity to call them a " handful of pettifogi'ing old ladies," except, of course, under the safe protection of his pseudonym. I reiterate what I haye already stated in my former letter re cowards. Should "Dux" consider himself a man, my advice is for him to sign his name, and I will do likewise. Then his curiosity will bo satisfied re "Skia" beim? one of tlie Prohibition Party, to which he naturally feels antagonistic after his nice little ' iish " supper. Skia.

To the Editor. Sib, —The " Prevention of Cruelty to Animals " comedy has, under your gracious management, hp.d a fair run. The characters have each played their parts to what should be the end. The star actor is placed in a most unenviable position the man in him, we feel sure, is willing to play his part to the bitter end; the clergyman in him holding up the barring banner of " Peace to all men the position of man bound by the conyentionalties of " the cloth " and the ties of conscience to the bedrock of Christianity—God's forbearance. The villian, if Mr Stephenson will excuse me, has played his necessarily forceful role with broad humour covering the roughened edges, while the feminine wild remonstrance of " Lover of Justice" and the masculine forcefulness of our shadowy friond " Skia," served to counterbalance the bickerings'of my humble self. Ear better that the actors should now gather on the stage trusting for a kindly reception at the bauds of their audience, who have been sit a unique piece," the moral of which is'not hard to grasp ; and with a lust word of thanks to our indulgent manager, ring down the curtain on I what has been a most interesting scene in the great play of life; the star returning to Ins peaceful vocation, the villain to his pastures and his stock; " Lover of Justice " to her beloyed teacup; "Skia" to his pipe of peace, and Dux to his fried fish (without the intoxicant.), Yours, etc., Dux.