§ MR. G. GREENWOOD (Peterborough)I beg to ask the Prime Minister if he is aware that, on 27th November last, a deer turned out to be hunted by the Berks and Bucks staghounds, after a run of some fifteen miles, got entangled in a barbed wire fence which it had attempted to jump, and while thus entangled was so severely bitten by the hounds and so seriously injured by the barbed wire that it subsequently died in a cart into which it had been lifted for the purpose of removing it; and if he is 687 aware that, on 4th December last, another deer was turned out by the same hunt in a maimed and injured condition, and after a short run was captured and carried on a gate to a neighbouring farm, where it was killed by order of the master of the hounds; and if he will introduce legislation at an early date to put down such so called sport.
§ SIR H. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANI am not aware whether the facts are as my hon. friend states, but if such cruelties are perpetrated and we can do anything to top them I shall be very glad. I am against cruelty of any sort whether under the name of sport or otherwise.