NO MORE FOX-HUNTING.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 6, 1 June 1883, Page 23

NO MORE FOX-HUNTING.

An Irish paper gives an ironical report, headed " Another Dastardly Outrage," saying :—: — "Another dastardly outrage— this time in Tipperary. We do not refer, of course, to the seizure of the cow of some unfortunate evicted family by Capt. Creigh, at Cloughleigh, for aid arrears. That was all right, of course. It is the poisoning of five fox-hounds on the same day near Cashel that draws tears from our eyes. The worst of it is, that such retaliation is perfectly legal, and does not even come under the Crimes Act. Ab, if it did, bow quickly our Vice-regal Nimrod would give the hint to his sporting stipendiaries, and law and order would triumph once more in this dreadful land. This time, however, the law is on the side of the people, who have only to chalk up notice to all poaching squireens, or advertise that their lands are poisoned, and then may shower down strychnine as if it was guano. '• The way in which the fate of the Cashel hunt is chronicled in the Easprets would touch the heart, of a special juror. ' After a short time it was discovered that five of the hounds had been poisoned. I need not say the hunt was given up, and such cowardly and brutal conduct condemned. It is certainly an un-Irish mode of expressing indigna ion against fox-bunting. The man who is capable of doing such an act to a dumb animal would do worse.' He would. And the man who is capable of hunting ' dumb animals,' panting their lives out, over miles and miles of country, and taking pleasure in seeing them torn to peices by dogs in the end, would also ' do worse/ Some such persons have actually been known to hunt human beings out of house and home to perish in the snow in winter ; to corrupt peasant women, and to degrade, beat, and insult trembling men. Thank God they do not forget these things in the homes of Tipperary. The Cashel huntsmen made so "indignant" on Saturday were Capt. Langley, Col. Kellett, Col. Mangles, and the officers of the 20th Hussars. Surely if the Tippeiary people bad known that they had spoiled sport on " Col. Mangles and the officers of the 20th Hussars," they would be deeply grieved. Are they not over here to protect process-servers and sheriffs, and assist the Crowbar Brigade, and how can their vacant hours be filled in, when they get leisure from eviction duty, if fox-hunting is to be prevented 1 There were only 50,000 people evicted in Ireland last year. Pshaw."