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WATERING OE CATTLE AT RAILWAY STATIONS. 
In the Court of Quarter Sessions for Gloucestershire, the 
Great Western Railway Company appealed against a decision of 
the Cirencester magistrates in having fined them for not having 
provided a due water supply for animals at the Cirencester Station. 
Cirencester is on the Cotswolds, and has a very large sheep 
market, with also a good supply of cattle. On the day named, 
1500 sheep were sold in the market by an auctioneer, and of these, 
it was said, 1000 were sent away by rail. 
Professor Brown, Vice-President of the Royal College of Vete- 
rinary Surgeons, and one of the Chief Inspectors under the Privy 
Council, made a report to the Government as to several principal 
stations on the Great Western Line, and included Cirencester, as 
having no provision for watering cattle ; and the result w r as 
that Cirencester was included in the next Order of the Privy 
Council. But no alteration was made, and it was now contended 
that the station had ample accommodation, and that the respond- 
ents ought to have proved that the provision was not to the satis- 
faction of the Privy Council. The magistrates decided that due 
provision had not been made, and that the conviction must be 
confirmed. The point is new, and a case for the Queen’s Bench 
was granted. 
ARMY APPOINTMENTS. 
War Office, Pall Mall ; Sept. Zbth. 
Second Regiment of. Dragoon Guards. — Veterinary Surgeon 
Alfred Adrian Jones, from Royal Artillery, to be Veterinary Sur- 
geon, vice Veterinary Surgeon, First Class, T. P. Gudgin, promoted, 
September 27th. 
Sixth Dragoon Guards. — Veterinary Surgeon John Ashworth 
Rostron, from Royal Artillery, to be Veterinary Surgeon, vice Vete- 
rinary Surgeon, Eirst Class, E. F. Collins, promoted, Sept. 27th. 
Veterinary Department; Oct. 6 th. 
Veterinary Surgeon of the First Class, William Partridge, from 
the Royal Artillery, to be Staff Veterinary Surgeon. 
