DUNEDIN NOTES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXX, Issue 14975, 22 April 1909, Page 3

DUNEDIN NOTES.

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DUNEDIN, April 21. Tlio Caversham Public Library has decided to hand over the whole of its books to the Dunedin City Corporation to start a free circulation department in connection with the Carnegie Library. At the Juvenile Court this morning two lads, aged thirteen and fourteen years respectively, pleaded guilty to a "charge of. cruelly ill-treating a cat. Station-Sergeant King said that the lads had taken the cat and thrown it into a vat of tar at the Gasworks, and after pulling it out one of them had pinned it to the ground with a pitchfork. There the cat was left for about ten minutes, when the lady who owned it came along and asked some other boys who were present to release it. The cab was alivo when released-but died soon afterwards. One of the lads gave as an excuse for his act that lie was a pigeon fancier and some of his pigeons had been killed, and lie thought that perhaps this cat had killed them. Tlio Magistrate said that tlio act was a most fiendish and cruel one, and he would not pass it over lightly. Tlio hoys were remanded.