CAMBRIDGE NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 73, 27 March 1900, Page 3

CAMBRIDGE NOTES.

<By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)

CAMBRIDGE, Monday.

A meeting- of the. members of the Waikato Hunt Club was held at the! Criterion Hotel on Saturday. The master (Mr H. Bullock-Webster) presided. The secretary (Mr Norman Banks) reported a credit balance of over £15, an improvement on previous years. The huntsman (Mr Wynne Brown) asked to be relieved from his responsibilties in connection with thet club. It was resolved to relieve Mr Brown of his duties, and an arrangement will be made with one of th.6 Selbys to take over the hounds. The pack now consists of six couples, and three couples will be added .forthwith. The Club have six beautiful puppies, but they will not be of much use till towards the end of the season. The regular hunting days will be Satur-days,-but by days will be held on Wednesdays. It was arranged to hold the meets far away from Cambridge on the Saturdays when Mr Hunter holdfi his sales there, so as not to interfere with them. The Meets Committee con> sists of Messrs Douglas, Pickering, Hannon, Hicks and Ramse\ r, and, of course, the officers of the club. ' rt was resolved to join the Hunt Club Association of New Zealand, and Mr Banks was appointed delegate to attend the meeting. By the rules of the Association, all horses must be hunted five, times to the satisfaction of the master before they are qualified. Polo is still booming here, and tha members of the club had a spirited contest on Saturday.. Theannual sports will be held on April 4th, at Mr James Taylor's farm at "BardoWie." I am sorry to say Mr Thos. Wells' two daughters met with an accident on Saturday, and that Miss. Wells ir, somewhat severely cut about the head an<l face. The horse got the reins under his tail and then bolted, capsising the buggy and throwing.the ladies out. The. accident happened in Chapel-street, so they were close at home. Our Archdeacon leaves us for a visit to the Old Country at the end of next 'month. He leaves Sydney by the ; Afric. Mr Eric Harvey goes with him. We have had very calm and dry weather till yesterday, when a gale set in, and consequently all the late fruit, chiefly peaches a,nd apples, have been shaken from the trees. I expect you will have your market glutted with the wind-falls, and that will about end the season as far as the Waikato is concerned. Unless we have rain in the ooures of a rew days cattle will be almost starving here, for Wt with the drought and now with the wind everything will be withered up.