MAN-HUNTING WITH DOGS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12853, 29 April 1905, Page 2 (Supplement)

MAN-HUNTING WITH DOGS.

On Mferch 24 a trial was made of hunting men by bloodhounds on Salisbury Flams. They were not dangerous criminals, but peaccable yokels, who laid a trail over which the members of the Bloodhound Hunt Club might test the merits of their pets. The meet was at Knighton flagstaff, near Shrewton Village, and the first hound, Mr. A. Leeston. Smith's Victor Clemsford, way laid on the line of his runner soon after nine o'clock. He was not an industrious dog, and, though he started well, he failed to persevere, and was "lifted," The best trial of the day was run by Mrs. Oliphant's bitch, Chat ley Bonny Bell. Owing to a mistake on the part of the runner she was slipped on a. scent an hour and three-quarters cold. Beginning well and hunting her line truly, slid ran out in twentyeight minutesa fine performance on such a day. he puppies Chatley Borderer i'.nd Baron were tried in the stake for couples of hounds. J heir lino was over four miles and a-half, and although about half a mile from the. finish they were turned by a man, they ran brilliantly. Borderer found his man, who was secreted in an outhouse on the Downs, inside fifty minutesa very fine performance for a puppy only a little over seven months old.

The day was wound up by the senior pack of Mrs. Oliphantfour and a-half couplesrunning a seven miles line in twenty-nina minutes. It was a beautiful run, and it Netheravon Bottom the horsemen had grca/ difficulty in maintaining the pace.