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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LI, Issue 9137, 9 July 1906, Page 8

A witn&ss in a cruelty to animals case at Christohurch, in which, a severe penalty was inflicted, said that when he visited the section where the ill-tTeated horse was kept, there were no traces of foad except j a very little old chaff lying about, and | there was no water. The horse was in a very weak state. Witness visited the paddock on seroral other occasions, and then© was still no food. On the last occasion the horse was cast, and unable to r. : SB, being actually in a dying state from starvation. He called in a veterinary surgeon and had it shot. The feed boxes [ were gnawed down to- the nails, and contained shingle th»t witaiess had put in 9ome tim>& before to see if food was put in. The Niobe Hockey Club ball takes place at Okaiawa Town Hall on Wednesday evening, July 18. Messrs McGruer, Bone and Co. , drapers, notify that this is the- last week of their annual stock-taking sale. Steuart and Corrigan will hold a clearing sale bn Mr George Tait's farm, Palmer road. on. Monday, July 16. They will also conduct a stock sale at Eltham on Wed nesday, July 11. Mr Newton King specially asks his clients to note l£e altered dates (July 19) of Mr W. N. Jenkins' clearing sale. Freeman R. Jackson and Co. will hold a stock sale at Waverley on July 13.