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Zbe Selborne Society’s flI>aQa3lne. 
No. 106. OCTOBER, 1898. Vol. IX. 
SELBORN I AN A. 
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Exportation of Decrepit Horses. — We are pleased to 
learn from the September number of The Animal World that the 
President of the Board of Agriculture is preparing an order to 
prevent the exportation of horses so infirm as to be unable to 
make the voyage, and to compel the provision of appropriate 
accommodation for others. When we learn that nearly 20,000 
of these “ knacker ” horses, as they are termed, are exported 
yearly, the majority from London to Antwerp, we can realise 
how needful such regulations are. 
Act to Make Further Provision for the Prevention of 
Cruelty to Animals. — On July 18, Lord Herschell introduced 
in the House of Lords a bill with this title, which was read for 
the first time. It runs as follows : — 
Any person who, after the passing of this Act, shall ill-treat, abuse, or torture, 
or cause, or procure, or permit to be ill-treated, abused or tortured, any quad- 
ruped, or quadruman, or bird of wild nature, which has been captured or is being 
preserved on ornamental or other waters, or which is deprived of its liberty, or is 
tamed, shall be guilty of an offence, and for every such offence shall be liable to 
the same penalties, and be subject to the same summary jurisdiction as an 
offender under the provisions of the Scheduled Acts, or any of them in respect 
of the ill-treatment, abuse or torture of animals as therein defined. 
Though we may not all think this measure sufficiently compre- 
hensive, it is one which all Selbornians should support as at least 
valuable so far as it goes. 
African Big Game. — As a striking vindication of the remarks 
we have recently made on this subject, comes the announcement 
that, in the interests apparently of sportsmen themselves, an inter- 
national conference is to be held shortly to consider what steps 
can be taken to prevent extermination. Elephants, it is stated, 
have now entirely disappeared from Zululand, and the slaughter 
