THE PAKURANGA HUNT.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1735, 6 September 1875, Page 2

THE PAKURANGA HUNT.

The Pakuranga Hunt Club wound up its i 1875 season with a grand day on Saturday. The meet was at Mr James McCosh Clark's residence at Remuera and a drag hunt wag ; announced for the afternoon's run. At two 5®

o'clock the members of

the Hunt and

a large number of visitors sat down : to a lunch, set out in true English 1 style at Mr Clark's. This being discussed. • and washed down with bumpers of ale and 1 wine, the proper business of the day. began, and "to horse " was the word. Among the, M steeds in waiting might have been made out n the game Earey, Gameboy, Kate, Saunterer, Billycock, Cockey, and others not un- 1 known to fame. The field, as it streamed 9 down to the Harp of Erin Hotel, where I

the drag was set going, numbered, as nearly | as they could be counted, about fifty horse- 1 men. These were supplemented by a a numerous carriage contingent and it afforded '^ us much pleasure to see the vehicles occupied

by so many ladies

Almost all the leading

gentlemen of the hunt appeared on the scene.

We descried Mr W. McLaughlin the master ' evidently pleased with the popularity of the occasion, Mr S. Morrin, Captain Goring, Mr 1 P. M. Clark, Mr E.. Wynyard, Mr Owen McGee and others too numerous to mention. The hounds threw off at 3 o'clock and struck for the railway which they crossed and 8 skirted on the far side till they turned again 1B bygMr Scarrott's house and re-crossing the | line led up for Tree Hill. In rising the *| eastern spur of this, the field presented V V onefof the prettiest sights imaginable, all the -:-,i prettier from its being so rare. The finish vffi was made at Isaac Gwynne's. The run was -. not intended to be a fast cne and this fact was of course well known to nearly all, bnt n there were two or three who forgot it or.;;: did not know it for they were among the I hounds several times in their anxiety to be 9 first. The dogs hunted very fairly consider- I ing the novelty of the method of laying the I scent. Had this been done by a man on foot instead of on horseback, we venture to think it would have been an improvement. Mr m Percival, the secretary, had a purler soon fS* after the start, but fortunately escaped with a shaking. After the run a collection was made for the funds of the Hunt which was liberally responded'to. The affair altogether was a I great success, and has altogether brought the Club very prominently into notice. We 1 understand that the1 Club intend holding a J Steeplechase meeting at Ellerslie on the 6th 1 October.