LAW AND POLICE.
POLICE COURT.— [Before Dr. Oiles, B.M.] 111-treating a Horse. — William Taylor was charged with ill-treating a horse on the 22nd of May, at Auckland, by driving it whilst it was suffering from sores upon the shoulder. The case was brought under the Police Offences Act, 1881. Mr. Dufaur appeared for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, who laid the information. The accused pleaded guilty to the charge. Mr. Dufaur said that while the Society had no desire to press for a heavy penalty, still they would ask such a penalty as would be a punishment for the offence. Mr. Dufaur added that the case might not have been brought at all, but for the fact that the defendant had been previously warned. The defendant stated that while it was true the horse had a sere shoulder, it was caused by a long journey a day or two previously, and that the horse being a young one it was easily chafed. He was intending not to work it till the shoulders were better. The R.M. inflicted a fine of 10a, and 7:3 costs. This was all the business before the Court.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9067, 30 May 1888, Page 3
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