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NZ Truth, Issue 156, 13 June 1908, Page 3

Jock Simpson, .of. the Central Hotel, Napier, and late of the Post Office Hotel, Palmerston North, announces m this issue that he will always be. glad to meet old friends. Jock keeps a real good house and can be depended upon to make as many new friends as he has oM, and that is saying a lot A defunct Ashbiirton person • named Donald Williamson enjoined iD his will that all the elderly horses on his estate should be destroyed, presumably to prevent them falling injo the hands of an unkind master. Accordingly a crowd of ancient mokes were driven to the local abattoir t'other day and partook of sudden death. Deponent sayeth nothing concerning what the equine patriarchs thought Of it. If old Williamson had bankrupted . before his death, and his friends proceeded to poleaxe him to prevent him supping the sorrow of poverty, it is probable Williamson would have objected. Doubtless, if the aged prads were consulted, they would have risked a bad master to secure a year or two of existence. Besides the local abattoir, is objectionable as the scene of slaughter ; the meat might get mixed, aud joints should be regarded with suspicion for several days subsequent to the execution.