Correspondence.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 224, 21 September 1868, Page 2

Correspondence.

To the Editor of the Nelson Evening Mail Sir — In your yesterday's issue you say thßt you have received a letter signed ' Henry Neai,' attempting to justify the man Gilson's treatment of his horse on Wednesday last, and you give the principal points in this letter. Will you allow me, in the interests of truth and humanity, to inform you that these statements are so flagrantly at variance with the truth that I would beg you to contradict it in toto. In the first place the horse was butchered in Bronti-street at its junction with Shel-buroe-street, and not on the fiat ground near Collingwood-street, as asserted in that letter. In the riext place your correspondent Neai was so intoxicated at the time as to render him quite incompetent to give any reliable evidence in the matter, and moreover I am in a position to prove from his own lips that he saw nothing whatever of the transaction until the horse fell. I assert positively that Gilson waa using the harshest possible treatment to his horse, beating it most severely over the head and kicking it with all his might, the last blow with the handle of the whip causing it to rear and fail backward iu its death struggles. This severity was not provoked by any stubbornness on the part of the animal, but by the sheer weakness and incapacity of the poor beast to do its work, apparently from insufficient feediug. Respectfully requesting you to insert the above lines, as a protest against Neal's false statement, and as a record of my indignation against such wanton aud unjustifiable cruelty, Tour's &c, An Eyewitness. September 19, 1868. [On personal enquiry in the neighborhood, we find the above statement more than corroborated. The further treatment of this abominable case must be left to the Police authorities — Ed. N.E.M.]