The Feilding Hounds

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 150, 12 June 1890, Page 2

The Feilding Hounds

. We have been having some good sport with the above hounds during the past s week, they having hunted four days. On 1 Wednesday the 4th June we were/at Halr combe and Mr Dbdswell, at the hotel, 8 entertained us in a very hospital manner c before we started our drag. After the inner man had been attended to, a move was made to: Mr Fergusson's farm, where 1 we found he had laid the drag over as nice i hunting country as could be found. , There was not'a very numerous field out, i and the fences being rather large consequently there was little or no damage k done. Those . gentleman who rode the 7 straightest deserve, a word of praise. I f shall not mention any names but simply i say there were five, four, of whom. rode chestnut horses and the fifth a big grey horse. '.-.'. On Saturday the 7th, through the kind invitation ofMr Proctor, a good day's sport was had on the Carnarvon estate, p The huntsman and hounds went down the night previous, and. a big field met the ' hounds on Saturday, some coming a great ', distance. A good lunch was provided by I Mr and Mrs Proctor, which we did ample justice to. The drag was 'laid over the best bunting country it has been my good 4 luck to ride over this' season. ' The dist ance was about. s miles; the fences at the start being a bit big, ultimately finishing at Mr T. Mackenzie's house,' where we were met by that gentleman wlio gave us a good greeting and mentioned that he hoped we would come and have another " day over that side of the country before the close of the season. Those in the front ranks, I noticed, were Messrs J. and , L. Proctor, on two real good, hunters, Big-head and Grey Tom ; T. Cameron on Asper ; J. Retter, Songster ; J. Purcell, Ackolifce; McMillan, Corsair; McKelvie, Ebony ; Lloyd, : junr.,.' Matchless ; and 1 Roake on Hermit. ■•; .-, ; , .» ; ; ' i .! > On Monday the 9th we met at Turakina, Mr W. Simpson got lis a very nice gallop extending about four miles and a /half." It was a very wet "day" 'or doubtless there would have been a much larger field present. Nevertheless- there were : .several gentlemen firom Wanganui, Fordbll, Marton, &c. Mr Bell from the former town has a real good hunter called Zihgari and will, no doubt, give a good ' account of himself at the hunt steeplechases. ' Messrs W. Simpson, B. Cameron, Wootoh, Harrison, and Chapman were most prominent during the run. 5 ' '•' ■'•'"> '"a "' On Wednesday, -the llth,' ; our 'fixture was at Awahuri, but owing, to- the poor attendance a drag was not laid. --Taking the bounds into the racecourse a bare was Boon on foot, which gave us a very nice gallop for about -20 minutes- at no slow pace, the hounds' eventually killing and breaking it up before any of us could get to them. Thus ended a very enjoyable : week's sport. - : Mylbs B. Hynbe.