Waitaki Hunt Club.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9590, 24 July 1907, Page 2

Waitaki Hunt Club.

ll'ioin (Mir Own Cnire.'<poi>dent.) Although Saturday lir.il((« unfavorably willi drizzling ruin, the hounds wore lukoii to Ngaparn to nii'i'l nt Mr Shand's houne. With true spoiling feeling, Mr Shand provided luncheon for those wlin clinic from n distance, and after llii' good things wore ilim■iiwu'il' all were ready lor tlio riporf provided. Alionl I o'clock Mr Snndomnu went, away with tin' drag over n linn of country, stalling from Iho N|fii|iarn, fool. bull ground. Ilclweon twenty iiml thirty followers on junipers of various cnpitbili Hot; li lup to follow, and away wo went, iivcr tin' tirot feme, ovi'i' which, although the. binding was not good, nil wcnl wifely. Then over n gorse into plough. Hero I In' sccnt%vas (old mill careful working look us ovit u wire fence, round » hill, over nil awkward wire in Iho hollow, along Iho hill to a i hook. (Jelling ovctiiii awkward harh win l , I lie Ikiiiim/n go I going, and we iwed away for ovit a inilo to a big gome. After negotiating I Inn n churl chock uu.t uiiiilo. This fciH'o \vims the moans of emptying n saddle or two, Iml noon nil wore up ami ready for I In l frn.v. Again oil Iho Jiuo wn ran down a gully. I lore a. hum look flui hounds oil tlio lino; Iml Iho whip* (M«w» l/.nrd nn<l Hiuwall), alter negotiating a, big gate soon liikl them in liiuhl again, anil swinging hark on the lino wo ran up 11 hill, over a double gate, and news hoiiiii downs, where we again cheeked. Again laying on the hounds, wo came to a big gorse into plough. Thin fenee slopped a lew, I heir mounts evidently <liuliking the awkward looking slcope that worcc!i|ionod. The hounds from linn ran keen over a goi.se, ovi'r a wire, through an open gale, over another ronllv good gome, to Iho llnnl elu'<k. Here .\li- llradshaw called for el m for Messrs Shand, Hell, Qunifo, Wuliioii, and llrennan, whose country hail been hunted over, and these lioing hoarlily given wo turned for home. Among the followers I noticed Mr llradshnw (master) on Nguhii-i, Mehsi'H hard on Mightv Alum, llassall on Dingo (whips), I'. Shand on Kvening Star, Logan on Mistake, do Lam bcrl <m Laddie, l)r Aitken on Dolly (iroy, ,1. Fleming on Wnilaki, l l '. Orr on Miss Moa, T. Shand on a brown, Seth Smith, Dull, Henderson, Conlan, Kidd, (iriuit, and others. The next, html, is at Mr Brown's, Station i'eak on Saluiilay lll'nl, when 1 hope to see as large a iiuinhor of follower,'* ui> wero nl Inst mint.