CANTERBURY HUNT CLUB.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 7, 29 April 1876, Page 4

CANTERBURY HUNT CLUB.

The."Lyttelton Times" imports that the ftfst pwMie meet of Sine Canterbwry Drag Hottfids took place on the 20th, at the resident® of Ltettt.-Colonel Packe, who had provided % atwnptttomw I«nehe«n. The nwi'Vas fc-he?e being ahont sixty ladies and gentlemen present, many of the latter beifig well mounted. There were two good rn®s, mud after the ffnwlt of the second, the pack, which numbered five cottple, hunted remarkably wdflL The gentlemen who fetsred in the front ranks of the liitnfc—beside* htttit»?i(c-n uul wMpy who rode well to the front ail lite i»ky r ami Mr. A. Corilile, the worthy fieM-maater, whose steady and pltteky riding; was the admiration of alt—were Mr. Lee, aa«! Siaunrttel Higgot, on a three-year-old colt out .of Kasper's dam, althotij*h it waa tine ikst time the cott had seen fences. Nexfe came Mr. Marehant «>n Dr. Hiilst's roan gelding, Mr. P. Britfcan 011 Royalty, Mr. Moore on Pakclia, and Mr. O'Brien ffSt Atte&land Kate. Mr. I*. Campbell **Mj©.To®tKß»y Dodd, tat the horse (ltd not take to the work so kindly as would be supposed, refnaing several of the fences, especially in crossing; tin* roads, Mr. Barker rede DeodTem-bttck, and came to grief twice. Mr. Egan also came to grief with bis hotse. Among the company present at the meet, we noticed Mr. A. CardaJe, master of the hottnete; Messrs. Delamain. Moore, Brittan, 11. Campbell, E. P. Williams, J. Anson, A. Money, Ltmn, J. P. OXbltagben, Gnulnck, D. O'Brien, Bredley, Heggott, M'nrehant, 'Woodman, C. F. Barker, G. Parker, Bovey, C. 'W. Webb, Wilson, AVttci, &e. Messrs. M. S&ttdholnte, A. Hawdon, Fitz- ' foy, and 'R. H.* Campbell were otit in carriages to see the hounds throw oft".