A mafoo was charyed with cruelty to a any by working it when in an unfit eon-ition.
Inspector Gibson said that a Sikh constable noticed that the pony was lame and had it taken out of the carriage and taken to the Station. Dr. Pratt had given a certificate (produced) stating that the pony was very lame in the off fore-leg and unfit. to be worked, Inspector Collins, representing the 8, S, P. C.A., said that at China New Year the ponies were almost worked to death, being driven several times backwards and forwards to and from Chang Ssu-ho's Gardens, The defendant said that the pony fell lame on the way home and he was taking it back to the stables.
In reply to the Assessor, the Sikh constable said he did not notice the pony on the way out. When he saw it, it was Jame and was being driven at a trot.
Inspector Collins said that if the pony fell lame on the way home, the mafoo, on noticing the fact, should have allowed it to walk.
The defendant was fined $3.
A Heavy Fine for Watering Cotton, A native broker was charged by Mr. A. B. Rosenfeld, Cotton Inspector, with at, tempting to bring into the Settlement" contrary to the Taotai's proclamation, about Ts. 2,600 worth of watered cotton, Inspector Matheson said the prisoner had been let out on bail of $400.
Mr. Rosenfeld said that he found a boatload of watered cotton being unloaded in the Namtao district. He sent his men down to the boat and went himself to the office of the Association to report the matter. "When the men in the boat found that they had been detected, they relended the cotton and moved across to the Pootung side of the river. The prisoner was arrested in a tea-house. He was the middleman, but"there%was another man concerned for whom he wished a warrant to be issued. IThe cotton contained 16.40 per cent of water.
Tn'reply to he Court, the risener said that the cotton was to be sol to the Tai Loong hong.
Mr. Rosenfeld said that was very imrobable. The chief man in the Tai Loong hong was the chairman of the Cotton Guild, and it was from the Cotton Guild that the information as to the cargo of watered cotton was received.
The prisoner was fined $400, half of the money to go to the Shantung Road Hospital and the other half to be distributed among Chinese charities,
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