In England to-day regrets are frequently expressed at the disappearance of the horse from our streets, to give way to the faster but evil-smelling motor-c maturer thought, however, one be-ion of This was struck keenly home to the mind of the writer the other day in Shanghai, when coming down Nanking Road at about 11 o'clock in the morning, he passed a carriage containing eight people,—three men, three women, and two children—in addition to the mafoo and his assistant, drawn by: one miserable specimen of a China pony. The poor animal's bones were sticking out of his body, there were gall sores on his flanks and foam round his jaw. To add to his miseries, the mafoo was dealing him stinging cuts across the Luck to increase the pace of an already too-fast trot. To bring the matter to the notice of the police useless, for all the police at this particular point were too busy. attending to traffic direction bother over other things. But there is one thing the Council might be persuaded to do, and that is, to limit the number of people scho may be earvied in a carriage of this type to a reasonable nuniber, using the ponies' burdens at leas? fa little. In most of the big towns in Europe this is done in respect fof taxi-cabs, and surely what can be done fora car can be done for '2 horse. Possibly some such order is now in force; if so the police should see that it is strictly applied. 'The SS.P.CA. can do, and fare doing; a good deal, but' they cannot be everywhere' at once, whereas ft is literally true to state that the police can, and are.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.