§ MR. DANEI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland is it the fact that a valuable horse was severely stabbed in several portions of its body upon Sunday night last at Newport, Tipperary; has any motive been suggested for this act; and has any person been made amenable for the outrage?
MR. J. MORLEYIt is a fact that a horse was stabbed and slightly wounded on the night of May 31, at the place mentioned in the question. No motive can be conceived for the act, and there is no ill-feeling whatever against the owner, who claims compensation to the amount of £140, although, as I understand, the animal was bought by him so recently as October last for £28. No person has been made amenable, and I may observe that the question of recording the act as an outrage will for the present be suspended.