CRUELTY TO DUMB ANIMALS. TO THE EDITOR.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 7263, 28 May 1885, Page 3

CRUELTY TO DUMB ANIMALS. TO THE EDITOR.

Sir,—The top part of Pitt street, near Quean Btreet hns recently been newly metalled, and the metal bas been left there without being ground in. I wish any of j our readers would watch come of tho poor horses of thia cily trying to pull up thU street over the stones. It la painful in the extreme, especially when laden. Whoever la to blamo for leaving metal uncovered on such a steep street should be ashamed cf himself. Hoping immediate Btepa will bo takon by the Inspector of the S.P.C.A.—I am, &c, A Lovbr of Dtran Animals.

Dunodln, May 27.

—Many physicians of small practice in London keep chemist shops, and on certain hours each day see patients, prescribe, give advice, and furnish medicine for one shilling each patient. —All the great rivers of Russia are interlaced by artificial canals, through which thousands of barges, some aa bigb aa 1000 tone burthen, make their way every navigation Beaßon from the Volga to the Novn. The Co3t of maintaining these waterways reaches £240,000 annually. —Sand-papering machines are said to be the greateat labour-saying and most profitable that can be used in any wood-working factory, especially by furniture, bracket, and chair companies. They will save from three to ten men's wagea, and do the work in a far superior and more perfect manner. These machines are fast coming into use in American shops.