PROSECUTION OF A COUNTESS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1520, 27 October 1883, Page 4

PROSECUTION OF A COUNTESS.

At the Hammersmith Polico Court recently, the Countess do la Torre, residing at Pembroke Square, Kensington, was summoned by Mr Harding, clerk of the Kensington Yestry, for keeping a number of cats and dogs in her dwelling-room so as to be a nuis- ' ance. Thomas Abbott, one of. the inspectors of nuisances for the parish, ■ said that in consequence of the abom- j inable stench arising from the house where the defendant occupied four rooms, he inspected them, and ..found '' in three rooms eighteen cats and nine ' dogs kept in a most offensive manner. : The animals were running about the, ; stairs and rooms, but wore confined to the house. He served her with a notice to discontinue keeping the cats and dogs, but she had paid no attend lion to it. As he was there on .Friday, _ and found the nuisance still existing, there being twelve cats, he' 1 asked the magistrate to make an order' ' to abate the nuisance, and also to jgrant a prohibitory order. In answer to questions,' the inspector said the landlady of the house had not raised any objection, but the neighbors had ' complained of the nuisance, The ' defendant said she had six ltitle kittens which the inspector called cats, Mary O'Donnell, who was servant in the house, was called, and said it was not fit for any person to live there. She counted 12 cats in the house that day. Tho defendant, in answer to the complainant, said she-was a member of • the Eoyal Sooiety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and she took : care of the cats which were left by • people who were away. She did so to prevent them from being starved. She " had promised Mr Harding and Dr Dunfield.Me medical officer of health, not to keep more than her own four or five cats and two dogs, Mr Shell explained that the defendant was liable to a penalty of 20s for each day she kepts the animals. He made the order, with 4s costs, .

A movement is on foot (the St James Gazette states) for the formation of another Conservative Club' inLondon, Already the City Carlton has its full complement of 900 members, and the Committee do not recommend this number to be-increased for the present. A provisional Committee has been formed, and a largo number' of names of proposed members have been received,

At a cost of 150,000f to the State, a Sardinian jury has just sat continuously for four days and a half in a. case of popular disturbance involving charges against no fewer than 87 prisoners. More than 2000 separate points had to be decided during the trial, audit took three hours to sentence' 51 of the accused to various terms of imprisonment, 16 to hard labor for life,' and to I order the remainder to beset timis,