A mafoo in the employ of Sing Dah, Soochow Road, was charged with cruelly ill-treating a pony by working it attached to a carriage on Bubbling Well Road 4 p.m. on she 21st instant, while suftering from lameness and sore withers,—Inspector Kinipple, representing the 8. 8.
A., said that when stopped by Indian P.C. 173 the pony was in avery distressed condition. It was lame all round and was suffering from sore withers. Two foreign passengere had been driving in the carriage for 4 considerable part of the afternoon, sing hod been w source of rouble to the Society on many previous occasions, and the Society intended to take out" summons ayainst him as well as against the mafoo. Witness handed in a veterinary certificate from Messrs, Keylock and Pratt, certifying to the pony's lameness.—Indian P.O. "173 guve corroborative evidence, and the defendant was sentenced t" 50 blows, the sentence being lenient on account of the fact that the owner of the pony is to be proceeded against.
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