TO THE EDITOR.

Patea Mail, 2 July 1881, Page 3

TO THE EDITOR.

are invited to discuss jrtatters of public interest witlr fairness and brevity ; this journal being an impartial' medium of discussion and advocacy for all affairs relating to the County of Patea.} . r HUNTING in the NINETEENTH ■. ; j C :i •Sib,—A word, >r please, .'respecting the present popular way of killing time, killing horses, and by the r digmfiedltitle of hunting. I have no wish whatever to find fault with those who are fond of risking; tbpirmecks for the honor of securing the tail of a red herring, or perhaps as a special treat that of en slie^slnri?'Sdbh trophies hung in a gentled man’s halLmay seem as noble as the tail of a fox pr the horns of a stag, j But; the 1 * Jifasfer hi the Hbundscod% tries ‘lfisl pack on a poor harmless cow, and then on f!^.casp|pn day,' nearly frightening ; tjbe spyenisensJa (if she has seyen) put o.f the, ons and running .the .other until it despaired of life, I thinjs-itis time -such" hunting was™put a' stop to, or perhaps some of likebesses may -be 1 madetbesubjectsof practice next time. What is your opinion of the noble sport ? Mine -ig that it wpnl<| not be njnchr lpss to; the colony if the bounds were ’ sent ten miles beyond the sea.' t t ....... ... r -.’nV- •■• ■ ;- ,v ‘STOBTSMAi^f;