THE PREVENTION OF HUNTING IN IRELAND.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2747, 12 January 1882, Page 3

THE 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 dallybounty. A Crowd of people assembled, who hooted, shouted, and blew horns to distract the bounds, but a good start was effected in spite of the interruptions, and the fun was off to Glangople, 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 boot and manifest the most hostile spirit. One gentleman from Thnries was pelted with stones. He rode up to to a fence, bat 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 rnn for 65 minntes killed the fox near Mr Going’s demesne at Bally philop. The crowd then re assembled in great'numbers, and their attitude was so menasing that it became necessary to abandon the next two coverts, but the master, Captain Macnaghton, wishing still to obtain some sport led them off to Front’s 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 yonng man came down from the bills, 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 rnn, overtook him and recovered the mare, lie hounds wqre then got together and the hunt retired, followed through the fields and on the road by the crowd.