NEWS AND ITEMS. 
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Veterinary Protective Laws for Hawaii. —The Re¬ 
view has received the following letter from Dr. W. T. Monsar- 
rat, dated Honolulu, H. L, Oct. 7th, 1897: “If it is convenient 
to yon I would like to procure the law regulating the practice 
of veterinary surgery and medicine in your State. The veteri¬ 
narians residing here intend to have a bill to that effect presented 
at the next session of the Legislature. I am a subscriber to the 
Review through one of our local news companies, a graduate 
of the Ontario, class of ’89, and employed by our Board of 
Health as Inspector of Meats and Dairy Cattle ; was at one time 
Government Inspector of Animals, holding the position for four 
years. The position is now held by J. R. Shaw, D.V.S., of Mc¬ 
Gill, who is also an Inspector of Dairy Cattle. We are now 
making a crusade of the dairies with the use of tuberculin ; 
have condemned and killed so far one hundred and twenty-six 
out of about three hundred and twenty-five injected with tuber¬ 
culin, taking seventy-three out of one dairy of one hundred and 
thirteen—a very large percentage I would say in such an out-of- 
the-way place as this. I could safely say that fifty per cent, of 
our cows on this island (Oahu) have tuberculosis. Wishing 
success to the Review and that your good work may be con¬ 
tinued, I am, respectfully yours.” 
Friendship for Brutp^s. —When a big gray horse drawing 
the tender of one of our fire engines fell against a lamp post—one 
of the disused and rusty things that ornament our thoroughfares 
—he broke his back. Instead of shooting the poor ereature at 
once, a fireman relieved him of his harness and sat on the pave¬ 
ment for an hour and a half holding his head on his knees and 
stroking and talking to him. It was an exhibition of affeetion 
and sentiment that is not often seen in a city, where horses are 
treated like the beasts of burden that they commonly are—beings 
who can do so much work and are foreed to do it. It was an 
exhibition that honored the fireman and all who showed their 
sympathy with his grief for the coming loss of his friend. If 
such a bond of good feeling existed between our own and the 
supposedly inferior races we should live in a safer and better 
regulated world. Many of the brutes are at least as worthy of 
our affection as certain of our kind. They do not make them¬ 
selves vexatious to the community by drunkenness, savagery, 
hoodlumism, theft or murder, and we cannot truthfully say the 
same of all men. In many ways men do not live up to the 
moral possibilities of the dog—that is, some men. The recog- 
