SOUTH CANTERBURY HARRIERS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3488, 10 June 1884, Page 2

SOUTH CANTERBURY HARRIERS.

[By Eurotas.]

These hounds met last Saturday, at Mr Gibson’s farm on the Mount Hor:rible Road. We were glad to see onr worthy master, Mr Hamlyn, in the pigskin again, after having “stood down” for a day or two, looking as fit and as keen as ever, on Countess, Theyer, on Milford, and the “ whip ” on the angular, but not to be denied, Euclid, surrounded by the nucleus of as- fine a pack of harriers as there is to be> found on this side of the line ; hardly level enough yet, but give the master and huntsmen a couple more seasons and we shall see them as level as a dining table and the proverbial sheet will then cover them easily. Amongst those present I noticed Mr Jefferson on Leap Tear, Mr Ashby on All Fours, Mr Aplinon a clipped bay, Mr T. Hall on Victoria (their first appearance this season, and right well they went too), the head shepherd from a neighboring estate, who won’t be denied, be it gorso, timber, or wire— Capt. Hamersley on old Colonel, and who manages to get along on him by following Assheton Smith’s advice, “ Throw your heart over and your horse will follow,” and our worthy secretary, who I am glad to see is doing his best to be with them and whose cob only wants a little more condition to enable him to be there or thereabouts. After a 1 ong draw in Mr Gibson’s paddocks, winch were blank, Theyer took the ho unds over into Mr Yondaille’s farm. Ai i “unawoidable less,” as the immortal Jc -irochs says, “as nasty a place as ever I; see, —wish I was well over," was the ca use of several refusals, but all at last gi >t safely over. Almost immediately a In ire was viewed away going to the right, up a steep gully in the bottom of w hich was a nasty fence, a capped wire ance with a ditch on the take-off side, £ 111 got over in time (but the rails fc tad to pay the penalty) up the )iill over a gorse fence, on to Glen Guramell road, and into Glen Gummol, where she had to he given up, Theyer trotted the hounds back to Mr Yondaille’s Icarm where a hare was immediately found »nd headed straight for Mr Yondaille’s house. After a sharp spin, they checked in the Mt. Horrible Road, and Theyer east forward over it. They had hardly crossed, when Puss jumped up from some tussocks whore she had squatted, and a halloo brought the hounds again on her line. It would have done any sportsman good to sec the pace at which they went for about two miles straight over Gibson’s old grass paddocks. They fairly raced over Yondaille’s and Gibson’s on to Meo’s farm, taking a bond ( O the left and back ou to Gibson's. To s h ow the pace, it was at least a minute bet Ve Theyer and the whip, and three or fc'ur minutes before the rest of field put in an appearance, all having gone as s traigb t as darts over the stiff country. r f hever made a judicious cast towards the road noi’ witllßtandin S tk® h al, ° oß o£ an excited jp'-dividual, who had seen a fresh hare go aw »y- P« 88 jumped up in front of the pack, who raced her down the hill towards Mr cxibson’s house. Afier a few minutes acres.' the large grass paddock, she was pulled.4own in a gully dose to the fence befot ® a newly-sown wheat paddock and 'jTwyer’e “ who-whoop might have been .hoard m Timaru. Ihe hounds deserved a kill, as they worked splendidly, and it was pleasing to notice this year’s puppies shaping m such a fashion as must have gladdened the heart of master and huntsman. The time of tho run from find to finish was thirty minutes; for twenty minutes the hounds and horses were going as hard as they could. It is a pity there wore not more out to enjoy what I believe to have boon so far the run of tho season.