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Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1557, 5 June 1885, Page 2

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Our column* are open to the di*cux*ion of all mutter* of public inttrett, bnl tea are in no teajf identified with the views qfour correspondent*. • CRUELTtVo ANIMALS. * (TO *4Mn_D-TOR, ISpLxdAHVA Tl__M.) Sib— "A good mah is merciful to his beast," but it is unmerciful to expect at this season of the year a man to lie merciful to his beast — not even Martin, who was the propounder of the Act, so often | misconstrued as the "Ciuelty to Ani- j mala Act," instead of the prevention of i same. Now lio not wish to dog a very useful body, namely the County Council, | who like their brethren thro New Zealand, : have not a great overdraft, but on the ! contrary, any number of appeals. But I ; would very modestly point out to the said j body the necessity of reducing three pinches on the Greymoath-Reefton road, ! which indeed are a very great hardship on j horses at the present time. The required I reductions, as a countryman of uiy own j expjessed, could "aisly be dorm at each j ftinch in about a weeks time with an Irish | ocomotive," to my unlearned engineers i simply means a wheelbarrow. Brevity ; suggests the same pinches to be Devery's Terrace, opposite Duncan's settlement, the "get out " at Stoney Creek, and the prince of terrors to waggoners addicted to blasphemy, the pinch at Casoli's Creek. > Hoping the remedy will come aeon. I am, etc., Per Se T er La.