PACK OF BEAGLES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LIII, Issue 5952, 24 March 1880, Page 5

PACK OF BEAGLES.

Many will be pleased to learn, as an addi* tion to healthy here, toat a pack of foot beagles has been: started, which will no doubt add fresh sport during toe winter; months to those interested in this kind of amusement . Although at present the pack only consists of five pups, a few months old,, several good runs have already been made, and it is intended td increase the number to ten couples by importing .otopghounds will require no horses m toe field, e 3 they will not exceed fourteen and a half inches in height. They will be found very u«Wto. those intereated in astoey will assise in scattering the hexes, Fhich i thickly in some; parts of the country near Christchurch. ‘ - ... .. _• These baagles, through toe.enterpn'eri: Mr Jackson, have, as .previously-,8^16^, already, given several good runs with drag, bntit is intended in emmse the, next two months to abandon tlm dtogror t more legitimate sport of “live” hunting,

and mute*’ sevarali hares wlU'probablv have been pulled down by these hounds. jQfn .J[otj«sday last a wpiW run mi had of about seven miles, finishing at Messn Pitta and Co’* SNnfi|fiel d bowery, whanithd fieldweW?hosW glass' of bce£ after *WdT •«* hbws;*!^ called, all’seeming well pleased with thou? .afternoon'smai 1 '- c '. ' V! > 1