HUNTING.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 8187, 1 June 1892, Page 6

HUNTING.

The Brackenfield bounds met last Saturday at Mr E. Chapman's, Springbank. A lovely morning induced a good many ladies to swell the field, both riding and on wheels. Scent, which was rather, catchy in the morniug, improved about midday, and as no time was wasted in finding the necessary game—indeed they were, if anything, rather too numerous— a grand day's sport was the result. The first hare was found close to the house, and gave a very nice hunting run of forty miontes before she was killed. The second was found very soon after, and the hounds ran as if they were tied to her for thirty minutes, when she succumbed. The pace in this ran was fast enough for anyone. At Mr Chapman's invitation lunch was next attacked with very i beneficial results. The third hare was found in the same paddock, and Rave us a very vice run of thirty-five minutes when she was brought to book after trying the manuka on the terrace,from which hounds forced her on to the flat again. The fourth hare was found on the terrace, aid made half & ring of about one and a half miles, when she was unfortunately headed, and running into the middle of the hounds soon became "history." The fifth hare was found in a plantation, and gave a long run, eventually crossing the railway line into Stoke, and threading some flax where the hounds were lucky in not charging, and she ran past the stable, and crossing the railway again ran up the road for a hundred yards, which gave the hounds the opportunity of proving how good their noses, are into the tussock- on Springbank again, and was killed in the water of the Cast, Mr Walter Chapman getting thoroughly drenched in rescuing her. Home was then the word, and needless to say that everyone was thoroughly delighted with their day's sport. The patience of Mr Parsons and his pack in sticking to their hare even when scent fe 6O fetat t°*t bo oo ** B c&n hardly own it, and the impossibility of getting their heads up will account in a great measure for their success. We believe that this day* sport is a record for New Zealand, at least if any other pack has killed five hares in a day without a chop ie has not been our luck to have heard of it.