RANGITIKEI HOUNDS.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 9161, 19 July 1895, Page 2

RANGITIKEI HOUNDS.

(By Stirrup.)

tfatnrday, Jane 15tb, saw these hounds *t Tftdcroft. Scent more or lesa in*

different). We had several nice gallops, with plenty of jumping, but wera unable to kill. Wednoad.-iy flxt:i'r-! .it So:n*>rser. Heavy hail etorma arid v :r : us of ruin all day and during the prec.'di»;c night. The whole countryside waa a perfect qu;;g mire, the result baing bounds did nut throw off.

Saturday, 22ud.—Quite a red-letter day. The morning was mild and cloudy, and as we jogged oat to Beiiview, I felt somehow I could "own" to a scent, nor was I at "fault" as the following will show, j was ju-t a trifle behind times, and upon my arrival at Captaia Johnson's gate, I »aw the hounds commencing to driw the target paddouk in the di-tance. I was soon with them, and almost immediately a " whimper" proclaimed a find. A dodgy ringing run of about twenty minutes, when pus* made into Mr and took us a good crallop over tint gentleman's property, and back again towards Bellvigw, where we lost in some turnip*. We drew several gras3 paddocks withio the next half hour, and then moved towarde the railway line. Finding almost immediately we rattled towards M.irton and across the road opposite Mr Cash's. Pu*s then made for a plantation of gucn-t. Crossing the creek, however, before reaching this we jumped into a grass lane and over into a stab paddock ; leaving Mr Oldficld's homestead on our right we travelled smirtly along nearly up to the waterworks. Bsaria* to the left rather we galloped oar hardest through Slight's and on towards the Fern Flats roa'l without the semblance of a check. The hounds rattling her through some burnt gorse, pass once moro swung to the left, but the hounds sticking to the line and giviac; no peace, fairly raced her on in the direction of Bonny Glen, and at last killed in a small scrub gully—about the stoutest "jack" thatever stretched the necks of a pack of harriers. The going upon occasions was terribly heavy, with some big *uns to jump, nnd it. was as much as we could do to keep with the hounds at timea, but for the most part the galloping was sound and the fences glorious. There was a gooriish field out, but not many at the finish. Amongst the few I noticed Mrs D. G« Riddiford on Spartan, Mi3S Daniels on Toby, and Miss Willis on Tory, Messrs J. P. Lethbridge on Ben, T. MacK-Mizie on Mies, T. Simpson on flop Bitters, C. RlacKenzie on Mark Twain, Stuart (of Kewitea) on Active, W. Kciller on Non Such, R. Aldworth on Ratu, P. Wotton on a good young 'an (by Isaak Walton), fi. Keiller on Kildare, E. Svainson on Uncle Dan, The Huntsman on The Snob, and (he Master on Flintstone.