To the Editor of, the Daily Southern Crou. Sir,— For some day's nast the inmate* of the above distinguished eatahli-ninfcnt, have been a source of great annoyance liy day and by night to the good folk* who reside in that locality. It appears that any poor dog having the misfortune- to lone his natural protectors, is pounced upon by" the police, and carefully deported in that menageiic- 'this however, in not the wont of it. for the pnor brutes nre evidently marie to fcwfc di»i»g their two or three days incarwratimi, while during that time, their cries for something to «atisfy the cravings of natnre, are heartrending in the extreme. Ultimately the poor sufferers are excorted to a gibbet, and during the silent watches of tha night ignotniniotisly hanged by the neck until dead. If it be necessary to keep up the above establishment, in the name of humanity Jet the inmates be supplied with food, and not forced to howl with itarvatton.— l have &c. , _ ' ' ' Pro Bono Pobmco. Supreme Court, Sep. 4, 1863. ' (Tf we had a society for t)ie prevention «.f cruelty to animals in Auckland,' the police' authorities or pro vincial authorities, or whoever else is to blame, would find themselves in trouble some fine morning, on account of the tprturep to which the, captured dogs are put in the Queen-street dog kennel. Tbero.i* no excuse whatever for maintaining this nnisance in the centre of the town, and we hppo tbe,partie», within whoxe province it comei, will have it speedily abated— Ep. D.S.C.]. '.,(

Wb do not l»noiy who is the inventor of the system of niachtneiy denoiihed below, but lio or they ninuuged to olitain possession of laiijG ruid* of money liy I'io operation of it, winch, fortunately for the Government win neaily nil recoveied. Wo once lead an m count of a machine, used in a P.u it gambling house, which opur nted l>y smothering the " unfortunate foi lnnate" winner afti'r he had letired for the night ; the tup of j.Jie bud, wheiein he win tf posing, descended l>y a^cieu woiking tju'iingh the ceiling above, and thus extin guished him. 'l'|io npj>u.i nt-ij^ wns detected liy mio puiiinn whoiefu«ed tolie "\»\l out, I ' and ho egc iped by the window null hiou»ht the detectives to the house imme diately. 