Hawke's Bay Hounds.

Hastings Standard, Volume IV, Issue 13, 11 May 1899, Page 3

Hawke's Bay Hounds.

MEET AT SHERENDEN. The Hawke's Bay hounds met at Sherenden yesterday. Despite the cold weather, there were a fair number of followers. Two runs were made over splendid country. The only lady follower was Mrs Donnelly, on Tip-top. The visitors were entertained in a most hospitable manner by Mr H. A. Eussell. Amongst those taking part in the runs were the following : Huntsman E. Jackson on Revenge. "Whip E. Anderson on The Briar. Harold Eussell on Piscadore. W. Davie on The Spook. W. Lister on Cartermor. C. O'Neill on K&pen Busk. T. Villers on Kuaha. P. Nelson on Paretua. J. Munn on Lighthouse. Mr Richards on Eeindeer. W. Broughton on Tapuai. Tip Broughton on Velocity. P. Neagle on Awahuri. T. Cleaver on a good-looking bay. Mrs Donnelly on Tip-Top. A number of others, well-mounted, also followed. The days sport was only attended by two falls, neither of which were serious.

At a funeral of a Maori on Sunday last at Kaiapoi there were no fewer than 250 bicycles stacked around the burial ground.

Three Natives died in the district yesterday : Ngatnoa, at Paka Paki ; Kapa, at Karamu ; and a Maori boy at- Waipawa.

William Baker, one of the survivors of the Isattle of Navarino, and who is now in his 94th year, was granted an old age pension at New Plymouth on Friday.

One side of a story told in a civil action heard in the Wellington Magistrate's Court was as follows : A man wanted his horse sold, and, having arranged with an auctioneer and fixed a reserve of £'j, sent the animal with his seven-year-old sen to the sale. No satisfactory bid was obtained, and the little fellow went off to another saleyard with the horse to, as he put it, '* watch the horse go up and down." There, in reply to the person in charge, he said that his father did want to sell the horse he (the boy) had with him. In a short space of time the animal had been knocked down to a pjrehaser for £'l t and young seven-year-old returned home minus the horse, and his father now sought to obtain its full valua. Tite other side contended that written instructions were not necessary for the horse to be sold, and that the father accepted all responsibility in placing the lad in charge of the horse. The Bench, however, decided against what thay termed the " enterpris isg auctioneer."—Post.