§ MR. T. W. RUSSELLI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether it has come to his knowledge that within the last 10 days cattle, belonging to Mr. John Bolton Massy, of Ballywine, County Tipperary, were brutally maimed and houghed during the night; and if he can devise any means of protection for dumb and helpless animals from cruelty of this kind?
MR. J. MORLEYI have received a Report of this brutal outrage, and the police are, I can assure the hon. Member, using every endeavour to discover and bring to justice the perpetrators. The hon. Member is well aware of the difficulties that meet every Irish Government in connection with cruel and detestable offences of this kind.