PRINCE AT THE HUNT

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 121, 22 May 1920, Page 9

PRINCE AT THE HUNT

A DAY WITH THE HOUNDS. ' (BI TILEORAFH.— ?RESS ASSOCIATION.) . OHRISTCHURCH, 21st May. The Prince of Wales to-day spent some time in a pleasant run with the hounds as the guest of the Canterbury Hunt Club at the initial meet of the club for the season at Charing Cross. The day was beautifully fine, with brilliant sunshine and a fresh westerly breeze ttfadd zest to the enjoyment of the outing. His Royal Highness motored out to the rendezvous at Charing Cross, and was met by members of the club, and, after lunch, got quickly to work. About a hundred ladies and gentlemen followed the pack, and a large number of people in motorcars watched the runs from the roads running through the flat country intersected hy many low gorse fences, and affording excellent obstacles to test the capacity of hunters. • Mr., j. H. Selby was huntsman, and picked up the scent quickly in the first run, which was a short, sharp ones ending in a kill in the roadway, right in view of the spectators, a quarter of an hour after the start. The Prince, mounted on Miss Richards's nobby brown cob, Clinker, was in at the death, in spite of the'fact that he had come to earth un- ■ -ceremoniously at one fence, when his horse hesitated on the far side of an obstacle he had cleared, and made a halfhearted jump at,a second clump of furze, ! and then altered his mind, ~while his Uoyal rider, moving on in the spirit of hw mount's first intention, slid lightly to earth. He was quickly in the saddle again, however, and joined in the leading division, and, as stated, finished with them. The I'rince appropriated the head of the hare as a trophy of the chase. Soveral other hares were put up during the afternoon, but though good runs resulted, no fuither kills were made. Altogether it was a most enjoyable outing, and the • Prince was loud in his eulogy .of the sport provided.

(UHITI» msS AtW.IATHIN.— CHPTMBHT.J MELBOURNE, 21st May. As in Sydney, accommodation for the Prince's visit to Melbourne is exhausted, in spite of largely increased tariffs. In many cases rooms were booked months ahead.