A special meeting was held at the Empjre on the 10th, to investigate into the statements made regarding the supposed malicious cutting of a piece of a bridge at the Forbury Park, said cutting being done, it was suggested, with a vie?' of injuring Mr Yeend's horses in their morxaflL' > 6 walk over *the bridge. There were preseffl— Mr George Dowse (in the chair), and Messrs S. G. Smith, Taggart, Meenan, Reany, Stephensou (the president, who came in after the proceedings had commenced), Yeend, Moore, Gourley, and the secretary, Mr bydney James. . The two pieces of the blue gum quartering supposed to have been maliciously cut, were pro duced. They were examined by members, and the general opinion (with which our reporter, after careful examination, quite agrees) was that the quartering was broken into two pieces by pressure— it was clearly a fracture,_ not a cut. The pieces fitted into each other in such a way as to show that they had not been cut with a chisel. Members expressed their sur prise at the statements made in the Press that it was a cut not a fracture, whereupon Representatives of the newspapers called attention to the somewhat strange fact that the piece of quartering brought by Mr Yeend to town had had the roughnesses' of the break smoothed off it with a chisel or tomahawk. Why did not Mr Yeend bring to town the other piece that had not been so smoothed ? They blamed the Press, but they (the reporters) would ask them, if they looked at the piece of wood Mr Yeend had brought to town, which had chisel marks on it, could they come to any other conclusion than that arrived at by the reporters and others who saw it— namely, that it nad been cut V Members expressed the opinion that the piece Mr Yeend had brought to town to the Police had had the break trimmed with a chisel, but considered that the quartering had been broken first and the break had been trimmed after. It appeared that heavy draught horses had been chased, in endeavouring to catch them, over the bridge on the previous evening. Mr Gourley spoke to the effect that Mr Yeend need not have made such a fuss about his (Mr Yeend'a) horses, as other horses were also brought over that bridge regularly. 