PAKURANGA HUNT CLUB.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9327, 10 October 1893, Page 3

PAKURANGA HUNT CLUB.

On.Saturday the hounds met at Morningside, at 2.30 p.m. After half an hour's law the hounds were thrown off. The first drag was laid from the Great North Road, taking a wide sweep across country, and finishing at the railway crossing below Mt. Albert Station. It was over a very rough rocky country, the jumps being all stone walls. Very few rode this drag right through, and only one lady finished. Mr. Brown got a very nasty fall, through his horse putting his foot on a rolling stone, turning a somersault over the walljand tailing on his rider. The next drag was started about a-quarter of a mile below where the other. one finished, off the road, a good many horses having a difference of opinion as to whether it was not better to stay there; this drag took us over some good country round the mountain, finishing on the Three Kings Road. The third drag was laid through Mr. Taylor's property, and straight through to the Three Kings School. The scarcity of followers during the day was remarkable, the greater number preferring the road, even some of our hardest riders preferring the safer mode of looking on, to taking part in a crosscountry ride. Among those out were:— Mrs. Bloomfield, Misses Dunnet, McLaughlin, Percival, Garrett, Thomas, and Ireland, Col. Dawson, Messrs. Taylor, Bloomfield, Tonks (2), McLaughlin, Noakes, Selby (2), Gordon, Ware, Chapman, Lockhart, Hanna, Gorrie, Phillips, Elliot, VVansborough, Shera, and many other whose names I cannae remember, also a great many driving. «< Hark Forward."