ILL-TREATMENT OP HORSES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11198, 19 October 1899, Page 6

ILL-TREATMENT OP HORSES.

TO the EDITOR. 3$ . Sir, — was with.much pleasure that I read in the Herald this morning of a 'bus pro* prietor being fined £5, and costs, for allowing a 501,0 horse to bo driven. I am from Ame-, riea, where horses are carefully looked aftW and well treated, and it does worry roe Ajj see tho poor brutes so badly, used here. And when I ask the question, why are they al> lowed to treat them so, lam told, Oh, they; are so cheap, it would not pay to bolji«?| about hem." One day, in i.-ing to Moiwir Roskill, the driver did little else hut whip one of his three horses. When I paid ®??, faro I told him had I been near he would, \ not have done it. His reply was that If' 8 j liorre would not go unless lie used the whip- I In looking at the horse I saw.little eiso hut a frame, with a hide over ii. Just row, looking from my window, I saw a fellow driving a pony and cart at a smart rate, anil bS' hind, doing its very best, Wjs a t'.ce tif J t°.g the waggona most cruel thing to do. >VW.J. do not the Auckland people inlorfwe! V 0 London the polico are rewarded for reporting ill-used and disabled horses. Why not m same here? Horses should not be allow? to run up hills, and if the driver were fined-/ for compelling them to do so. it would so°£|' be stopped, The whip is entirely too mucn. used here in Auckland. It surely dishearten?! and makes the horses look tho dejected #P'j| mals they appear to me hero. And it wo 1 ! 111: not bo a bad idea to have mounted pol lc ? : stationed a mile or two apart on the resorted;, to out-of-town drives on Sundays, etc. A couple o( Sundays ago, while out driving,'fji saw three men in a cart driving as fas' ® they could. They came to a turn in the r9>»| and got a spill. They passed us at full Mi; up and down hills, waving their hate in,*Wj •air. 'After they had gone about four mi' 68 at that rate they turned their horse, a po®| little, willing thing, back again.— am. ej® l ' A.J.F.F.&11 ■. ■ m