HUNTING.

Timaru Herald, Volume LII, Issue 5168, 15 June 1891, Page 3

HUNTING.

— „ « WAIMATE COUNTY HAEBIEES. This pack mat as advertised on Thursday, the 11th instant, at Holmo Station, Paroora, tha residence of Mr Edwavd Elworthy. Mr Elworthy's country is on the confines of the Waimate and South Canterbury Harrier hunting districts, consequently members of the South Canterbury Hunt Club, including the master and huntsman, mustered in force to do honour to the neighbouring pack. Mr B\ W. Burnley ia acting as honorary huntsman to tho Waimate pack and as both Mr Burnley and Butterwortb, the whip, wore J koown to be mounted on fire-year-old colts much speculation was indulged in an to how they would shape in what ia known to bo a " wiro country nnd no errors!" Punctually at 11.30 the hounds, under tho mastership of Mr J. C. Thiereao jun., threw off ir\ tho horse pa«!dock close to the house. Two or three small epioe eventuated in a short run about the homestead ; but pu3s taking to the friendly shelter of tho plantation hounda were whipped off and an adjournment for lunch was made. The stereotyped phrase " well-known hospitality " confronts one when readiDg most reports of hunt meetings ; suffice it then to Bay that Mr Elwortby'a i luncheon party wag as merry a one as the . heart of man, or woman for that matter, , could desiro, and an exceedingly pleasant ; hour was consumed together with amply , provided luxuries. Shortly after lunch and amoko hounds were trotted off to a paddock i about two miles from the house whero a hare i got up in the open right in front of them. 1 One huntsman vociferated a view holloa, and ; although the huntsmau and whip were " all , there " hounds dashed off in hot prusuit r taking an impracticable line of country, and I getting clean away over the steep terraces, i Perforce " onlookers eaw moat of the game." , Hounda, however, stuck to her well, hustling her through a turnip paddook on top of the tidgo and bringing her right baok to the j placo where she was fouDd. Taking a line over good going country tho hare lad the field i over a couple of barb wiro fences across a . road, then over a grasa paddock and another fence of barb wire at the boundary into n newly eown oat paddock, whore they ran into her on the heavy ground and kiilod, After j breakina her up houodo were taken to o grass paddock where a real straight nocked one was ' quickly found. Scont being very good hounds 1 went at a rattling pace. A barbed wiro fence ! into a newly sown grasa paddock being first i negotiated tho going became heavy. On ' through this grass paddock, the ovor a plnin 1 wire fenco. On, otill on, ahe sped across the ' next paddock over a gorse and wiro fenco into 1 an oat paddock. Pups bore turned short to the 3 right across the oats over a plain wire fence, then she traversed another paddock and out ovor a barbed wire fenco sho ran into a gully along tho bottom of which she dodged, G-aining the top of tho gully eho wont through the gnrso fence, hounds close up in full cry. Now ahe reached tho further sido of this paddock struggling gamnly to gain tho swamp iu front. Taking tha field over a barb wire fonce sho gained tho okirt of the swamp olean . lickod. Literally staggering ovor the marshy 0 clods she mado through the edge of tho . swamp and oat again to the open, whero the (i eager pock pulled her down and kiilod after a e slashing, much-wired run of actually timed a 40 minutes. To say that evoryone had had g enough is superfluous, and to say that the colts :, ridden by tho huntsman and whip are " real . grit" is also] superfluous. Tho pace end r country were a Bevero tost nnd proved the 1 condition of the hounds and mettlo of the a horßes. Old Ben H. was well up s carrying tho muster ; Gelim with tho i, S. 0. H. huntsman in tho saddle was • of course rip.ht in it. Shimmol, "clever as a i. cut " carried Mr Higginbothatn. Mr Bullock . on Black Babbit, Mr McLaren on Nero, Mr e A, Pringle on Hocket, Mr Butson on Slortgor, and Mr Joe Gibaon on a black horse, all wont j atrnight as a die. There was but one lady following to whoso plucky riding too much a praiso cannot be given. Trioky wire country n is no joko, and Miss Allon got over it all on [. Bluoboy, keeping him at the tail of tbo I. hounds throughout this hard and brilliant r , run. Efßrprtby's meet will live in the annals ;, of hunting in Mils epoftipp district.