DEER STALKING IN NORTH OTAGO.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12479, 16 April 1906, Page 7

DEER STALKING IN NORTH OTAGO.

(SI'KOAL TO "THE rBKSS.") OAMARI7, April It. , Numbfis of dfor-staikers inave returnwl from trip to North Otago. Captain Power, ol Queensland, and Mok-sit> G(M). Laurenson, M.H.It., J. j Forbes, and 11. M. D. Morten of ! Christchure*h, who went out with Mes-rs Hodgkinson Brow, to Lake Hawea, cur-iMI fourteen Jieads, including i-oiuo j excellent spi'ciuiiMi.s. Captain rowers j bag compriaL'd two royais and an eleven : pointer, of tiie royjiLs being <>i hue i>p;in and great length. Mr For bee , H.'iot tiniv, among tiiem bi.'iiig a thirteen pointer. Colonel and .Uie iSiiiit!ir>on, who went to tthe Liudu<, ! st'cmvd two heaiLi. Air J. ii. IJ^nd,

ot 'lenipleton, in company with Mr Hi. I Jio<!gkui-.«>ii, seni - ., tihol a nia.y-ivo lvi te.en pointer, and a large thirteen pointer in the MaitLand cieek country— two splendid heads. Mr Hodgkiiisnn also secured a fine eleven pointer. Tiie Rev. W. C. Oliver, and Mos-sis E. Hardi castle and I). G. Smith, ot" Chrii.t- ;- ---' church, who went to the Dingle, were abo very biicce.Sfiulj Mr Oliver .securing four heads, including two royals, 'Mr Smith three heads, the bast of which was a very good ten jwinter, and Mr HardcaftUo a beautiful lourtten jwinter, and u\\ exceptionally even royal. The fourteen pointer is equal to tho laigoit heads in weight of horn, and us probably ilio most symmetrical head, carrying that number of points, that has ever ; boeu shot in North Otago. Tho weather was very broken, rain and finow fulling alternately. Tho fronts wero a!.-o severe. Tho deer were very numerous, and h«ve increased considerably during ' tho latit few yeans, but the long, wee spring was against a good growth of horn, and very few largo hoacs wero fioen in the Hawea. district. The dry summer, however, enabled the stafts to put on plenty of condition, and most iof those phot wore rolling fat.