WAIKATO HUNT CLUB.

Waikato Times, Volume XL, Issue 3258, 16 May 1893, Page 2

WAIKATO HUNT CLUB.

On Saturday Inst, tlio riucmid moot (if Mr liullnck-Wobster's hound.-: took lilac-*, us advertised, at l'ickoiing's corner, Homo twenty-five (jniitl'Mncn in all with nut, and luit fut the doluco of rain which came <ui tliore is ii'i doubt but that they would hava had Bplendid spurt. Hares were, if anything, rather plentiful, fresh ones cropping up it nnfortun it) moments. Tlio pack—thi! miking «f iiiinnf ihe.bcst in Mm fslifidworked very well, especially the puppies, which urn not twelve months nld till September. Thu'.i wi-iv, nf cnirsc, some good runs, which showed well this quality nf some n( the hunters. Should any Auckland •sportsmen tako a trip up this way this season in search uf Bond sport and grad country, they will (ret a mr,irise with that in and about tin vicinity of Messrs Pickering and Douglas' prnporlios, and if the'r "nags" are not tip-top "let'pirs 1, they had better stop »t hume. On Saturday afternoon a brake from Mr Ddur'hs' with several ladies followed round the roads, watching the hounds, while a few others wera mounted, but evidently rather charry nf negotiating the cross-country. Muster Willie Douglas, son of Mr \V. M. Douglas, although only a small lad nf abmt 8 years, gavu ampin evidence by his plucky riding, that he is tlio sun of a true sportsman,. Only two spills occurred during tho afternoon, neither tlio ridors or horses being hurt,