“AUGUR" IN NEW ZEALAND.

Evening Star, Issue 4095, 11 April 1876, Page 3

“AUGUR " IN NEW ZEALAND.

The first of Mr Chapman’s contributions to the * Australasian,’ since his arrival in New Zealand, appears in that paper of the 25th nit. In describing the tnp from the Bluff to Port Chalmers, the writer says he had for a fellow passenger “ King Toby, a chief of the Southern Maoris, who breeds sheep, cattle, and horses upon his station at Ruapuke, and of whom report says that he is now worth L 40,000, squatting being a profitable game in New Zealand just as it is in Australia.” Mr Chapman, on landing at the Port, called on Mr G. Dodson, whom he styles “a true type of the John Bull,” and whose stud he visited. Cassivelaunus he considers a very fine specimen of the English stud horse, and one that must improve the horses of Otago, a Province which is not possessed of another horse of the same class. The yearling colt by Traducer, out of Miss King, is the first by that sire Mr Chapman had ever seen, and a very fine one, he says, he is. The colt has a good sensible head, and symmetrically formed neck, excellent shoulders, strong muscular back, is remarkably well-ribbed up, has finely-turned quarters, and a good set of understandings. The writer was next most taken with Awhiowhio, a grand young chesnut mare, who being mated with Cassivelaunus, should breed race-horses; Envy, a splendid specimen of the brood-mare, and one that he has no hesitation in saying would compare favorably with anything in Victoria; Amur! and her black filly, quite a lady-like representative of the thoroughbred foal; the magnificent mare Remnant, than whom he has never seen a finer stud matron, for with plenty of size she possesses the beautiful quality of her half-sister Calumny; the old turf celebrity Wetsail, dam of Scud, Stormbird, Belle of the Isle, and others ; and Azucena, a grand, lengthy, brown mare by Towton—MegMerriles. The bay filly Traducer—Little Nell, he considers not nearly so taking in appearance as the Miss King colt, and she also betrays evidences of curbs on both hocks. The article concludesas follows ;—“The New Zealanders speak quite confidently of Mr Redwood’s colt Korari’s ability to settle the pretensions of the Victorian wonderful little champion Richmond; but crsdat Judoeue say I, though it is possible they may have another Manuka, in which case there would be little to choose between them. Amohia is a filly of whom I hear great things, but she and Korari are at Dunedin, and as I have not yet visited that City I shall have to defer my opinion until I have an opportunity of seeing them there.”