SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

Evening Star, Issue 7156, 9 March 1887, Page 2

SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

The following report has been; preparedfor the six months ended December 31:— : During the past six. months no less than 115 cases have been investigated by the {inspector.. Since the beginning of the present year two very flagrant cases of overdriving have beea dealt with, and the offenders heavily!fined, but an account of them will probably come in the next report, A large part of the inspector’s • time-has bean taken up with the- of the Benevolent Institute, but until the public subscribe more generally to the Society it is felt that ft would be unwise-to give' up the income derived from this source. The Committee have very great pleasure in reporting that tlip Mitchell, a life member, has sent l ouil ‘ a most generous gift of books and -tracie* in connection with the! objects! ‘of the Society/ These publications are ieminehfly calculated to induce a greater * timughi^ . fulness for our weaker fellow-oreaturei. ' It .is most desirable that the should be in a position ,to reprint many of thfe tiohs of the parent Society,, but before induf/ ring .the expense necessary for this purpose, the; Committee wish to see a more assured income. There.am fewer names on the subscription list on the present occasion in consequence of this report only covering six months. 0 The Committoe would -take this opportunity of earnestly requeatinkall members to tiy and inprease thohvembersnip of the Society,. This is a; matter ; in which the ladies might be bf jth? greatest service., ' The honorary solicitors and veterinary surgeons continue to give their valuable services to the Society/and the same harrnonioM relations exist vrith the police as last reported.' The Committee detirealsa toCxpress-their continued satisfaction with the inspeptor, who they believe acts firmly, and. with dudretion. ■ ; The hmpeotor’s report states that-

Three pienons were prosecuted, two be'hg convicted and- one discharged. -Fqur horaap suffering through being worn out were destroyed, and also two dogs, at the inspector's request. , Ninety-one personswere cautidned for 'the following offences:—For working horses with opefiTsores, when lame, in weak oohditioh, ’or : ‘ otherwise,uufit,23; iorbeating and 31-treating horses and cattle, 42; for overloading or over' driyfrg.3; keeping; animais without sufSoient food aid water, 10; ill-treating wttiaiupublio 2; total, ",sL |Qni -of , a nundw of pjtf reported 16 were not Oonndeted' cruelty. In cases where children nave been reported the parents have been requested to puniah them, aadthishas been done with mod effect,; The inspector, visited Waited, Fort JUUton, eta, besides visits "to cattle-yards and suburbs. statts that it is plpasingto notion the kind treatment displayed by Chinese towards their horses,' inflicted . time resulted 'marked improvement: Prosecutions Imve-cnly : been,’ instituted in veiy flagmut oases of cttWdty. 1 There are4hree offenoasawaiting trial. During' itim jamoytime pf crueltyi have been prosecuted &fwtolioc, who have acted most nmrmoniomfy with the'Sodety,