PREVENTION OF HUNTING IN IRELAND.

Patea Mail, 23 January 1882, Page 3

PREVENTION OF HUNTING IN IRELAND.

The hostile feeling towards country gentlemen is still shown in the prevention of hunting. The Tipperary foxhounds met the other day at Ballynounty. A crowd of people assembled, who hooted, shouted, and blew horns ,to distract the hounds, but a good start was effected in spite of the interruptions, and the run was off to, Glangoole, the property of Colonel White, A correspondent of the Daily Express , who describes the scene, states that the people collected on the hills with a number of mongrel hounds and other dogs, which they let loose among the hounds, and continued to hoot, and manifest the most hostile spirit. One gentleman from Thurles was pelted with stones. He rode up to a fence, but was attacked with sticks by the crowd, who forced his horse down a steep and dangerous place. He got clear of [them, however, without serious injury. The hounds, meantime, and the rest of the field kept the game steadily in view, and after a splendid run for 55 minutes killed the the fox near .Mr Goring’s demesne at Ballyphilop. The crowd then reassembled in great numbers, and their attitude was so menacing that it became necessary to abandon the next two coverts, but the master, Captain McNaughton, wishing still to obtain some sport, led them off to Fronts furze, where everything was apparently quiet. But here a class of a different kind awaited the field, which by this time was reduced to a few of the most daring and determined sportsmen. A huntsman having dismounted while he went in to start the fox, a young man came down from the hills unfastened the animal, and, springing into the saddle, rode away. The master, and some of the hunt, observing the movement, went in pursuit, and, after a very exciting run, overtook 7 him and recovered the mare. The hounds were then got together and the hunt retired, followed through the fields and on the road by the crowd. For remainder of Reading Matter , set next page. ? .