COURSING.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXX, Issue 14988, 7 May 1909, Page 8

COURSING.

A QUESTION OF OWNERSHIP. TPer Pbess Association-.] INVERCARGILL, May 5. 'At a meeting of the committee ot the Southland Coursing-Club to-night the special committee appointed to go into the evidence in regard to the ownership of the b and w b Diffident at the final meeting of the 1908 season reported that it had examined forty ohects of typewritten matter, and had decided to advise the club to recommend to the New Zealand Coursing Association—- " That M. Brr.on, of Hastings, be disqualified for life for signing a declaration which tho club has every reason to believe was false with regard to Diffident, and that the club requests that the- matter be dealt with at a special meeting of the New Zealand Coursirg Association at. Invercargill at the time of the Waterloo Cup Meeting on July 9." The recommendation was carried unanimously. The North Canterbury Coursing Ctuh'g first coursing meeting, which was postponed from April 2J owing to unfavourable weather, i* to take plpce to-morrow, on the Springbank Estate, near Fernside. Twenty dogs will compete tor a stake, of £2O, the entrybeing limited with the object of finishing the match on one day.