KENNEL NOTES.

New Zealand Mail, 21 July 1892, Page 25

KENNEL NOTES.

A very enthusiastic meeting of the committee of the Wellington Kennel Club was held at the Club Hotel on Thursday evening last. A good deal of business was got through, and among other things it was decided to hold monthly meetings for members, when arrangements will be made to have lectures and readings in connection with canine matters. This is a step in the right direction, and will tend to make the members more enthusiastic. Things canine are certainly improving. There have been quite a number of importations lately, and besides the Skye and Scotch terriers Mr Rogan brought from Melbourne last week, he brought a very good Irishman, in fact, we are assured he can beat anything already in the Colony.

There will be quite a large class of this breed at our next show. The home boat this week brought out a brace and throe pups. We have not yet ascertained who they are for, but shall know more about them next week. They are a nice pair and will hold their own with anything we have here at present. The puppies are only a month old, too young to judge, but they are full of life and look very promising.

We clip the following from the Australian Poultry and Dog G-zjtte re the dogs brought over by Mr Rogan : Mr John Picken’s Skye-terrier, Tommy 111., by Donald, out of Peggie, bred by Mr J >hn Robortson, has been purchased by Mr Rogan, of New Zealand. This promising youngster has never been beaten : Ist Melbourne 1891 ; Ist Essendon 1891, and is one of the best that ever left Mr Robertson’s kennels.

Mr Rogan has also purchased a bitch pup from the sanio kennelo. The pup is about 4 months old, and is by Perth 11. out. of Maid of Perth, both imported, and have a pedigree that includes 20 champions.

Mr Osborne, the local fancier, has purchased the la iter, and as it is such a splendidly bred one we give beiow its full pedigree, by which it will be seen it combines the blood of the best dogs ever bred, viz., Kildee, Dundee 3nd Alister.

We congratulate Mr Osborne in pos sessing such a splendidly-bred ‘Diehard.’

An English fanciers’ paper says : White Scotch terriers are coming in*o favour as a curiosity, if not more seriously. There is no reason, that we can see, why they should be ontircdy discarded on account of their colour. The other day we saw a nice little dog puppy with Mr Cameron, who judged the Scots at Aberdeen. He has a black nose, noat little ears, and as hard a coat as is to be met with at his age—about three or four months. In the standard of the breed, however, wheaten is the nearest approach to white that is recognised as a proper colour, and if judges act upon it, the fate of the milk-white terriers is plain enough. For our part, we should rather have an all white terrier than a black or brindle with a white foot or a prominent shirt front.

We learn from an English paper scrap, the Collie Old Times has changed hands, Mr W. H. Charles having sold to Mr T. P. Brearley for what is said to have been a long figure. Although not yet eighteen months old, we understand he has won as many as twenty cups, firsts and specials, including the £2O Challenge Cup at Bath. He is by Champion Edgbaston Fox ti Purity.

The following from the Stockkeeper will be interesting to our greyhound breeders : —‘ The relative speed of greyhounds, deerhounds, and Borzois has been much commented on of late, and the accounts of a series of trials that Mr John Wrigley, jun., of Formby, has brought off will be found interesting. Mr Wrigley writes under date of April 4 :—“ We have had Mr Freeman Lloyd’s Borzoi Whirlwind up here, and as he was desirous of giving him a trial we had three spins, one with Whirlwind and a greyhound, another with a greyhound and a deerhound of mine, and another with Whirlwind and the deerhound. In the first course they went up neck and neck to the but the Boiz i overshot her a good 30 yards, and never had another look in, and the greyhound won. In the second, greyhounddeerhound course, the deerhound led up to the first turn, and then she also was not one-ihird as smart as the little Graentickbitch and was thoroughly beaten. In the final with Whirlwind and my young deerhound Deina, a smart puppy, Whirlwind led a good 10 lengths to the hare, who turned, and then the deerhound killed as neatly as ever you saw, tossing the hare about six yards up in the air.” It will thus be seen that Mr Lloyd’s Borzoi is as speedy as this Grsentick greyhound bitch, and 10 lengths better than a smart deerhound, and that he fails in cleverness to the greyhound, which is just what we expected. However, practice and training will soon improve this.’

The Irish terriers which Mr George R. Krehl had the honour of presenting to the Queen before her departure to Hyeresare, says a London society paper, dogs a little larger than a fox-terrier, but they are all red in colour, and their coat is rough and wiry. They are an ancient and indigenous breed, and believed by their admirers to descend from the extinct liish wolfhound, which thoy much resemble in miniature. Before they become so fashionable they wore largely owned by poachors and travelling tinkers, who naturally valued their pec iliaiity of hunting mute. Their other exceptional qualifies as companions, such as their in telligenco and courage, coupled with invariable good temper, have found them admirers in all ranks of life. Mr Krehl received Her Majesty’s permission to write an account of the Windsor kennels for the Stockkeeper’s Christmas supplement, and when forwarding the presentation copy to Sir Henry Pun sou by, Mr Krehl took the opportunity to men'ion that while England and Scotland were plentifully represented by fox-terriers ami collies, Ireland was unrepresented ; and he bvggcd the honour of being permitted to sen 1 a couple of his own strain of Irish terriers to redress the latest of Ireland’s wrongs. On the occasion of his taking the dogs to the Castle, Her Majesty personally thanked Mr Krehl for his gift.

Landseer’s celebrated picture, Alpine Mastiffs, made £B4O at Christie’s Rooms at London recently. The celebrated painting was sold by auction.

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