THE EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA AT A STAG HUNT.

Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 69, 16 June 1877, Page 3

THE EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA AT A STAG HUNT.

[From the London "Examiner"] • • The Empress of Austria seems to be bent upon proving the "necessity of a large reform in the game laws- in the dominions of her husband: A few days ago she organised a stag hunt' on a puzzia near Pesth, when the poor ■ frightened hind ran along the railroad toward Pesth swimming over.' a pond, and then, pursued'Tsy the hounds and the noble 'huntsmen, frantically made its way into the town as far "as the Theresiensta'dter Church. The Empress, accompanied by the Baroness Wallersee, Baroness Edel-sheim-Gyulai and Princess Rosa Hohenlohe, took part in the chase with fierce delight, and was "in at the. de^th" when the exhausted animal broke down on the Hunyady .place. A large number bf people, attracted by the clattering noise of the large and splendid cavalcade, which careered N along withits yelping paejtof ' hounds, had assembled in the streets in. utter astonishment at such an extraordinary spectacle. * On the approach of the wild chase thjj crowd, turned aside, somewhat terrified by the furious charge. Fortunately no accident occurred, though it was a mere chance that feme of the numerous children just going to school were ndt ridden down. Here we have a fine survival of barbarism* . with an Empress Queen as "its representatives The question " Shall women hunt P" ' may be safely answered- thus : A' At all events not in this. way !"