HUNTING

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 35, 4 August 1911, Page 5

HUNTING

MWRTH TARANAKI OLUB. | !Aibout fifty members of the North. Tturanaki Hunt Club met at Messrs. Morris Bros.' property, Tapuae, yesterday afternoon, and some enjoyable sport eventuated. Only three bares were put up byi the bounds, but kills resulted m a]i cases alter some very interesting and ' * exciting runs. The first pussy gave t!he ~'.j hounds a run of over three miles over very rough country, mostly aloig tihe beach. The second find provided the beisib ran of the reason. The hfure, opening up in good country, led the hounds m and huntsmen a merry chase of over six 1 '» miles before .surrendering. Within the next half hour the hounds again got on the eoewt, and a run of two and a ■' half miles over choppy country ensued before a kill took place on tile old road ■jf o» the Oalrura Hill. At the conclusion of the hunt, Mr. B. H. Chancy, deputy- '! master, thanked Messrs. Morris Bros, for extending the use of their iproperty • to tihe club, and also for the pains they had' taken in sparring the fences. Mr. Jae. Rothery, oi the Oakum Hotel, offered to entertain the «9ub to a ilinntr, but owing to the lateness of the season and previous engagements tihe chiih was uiiable to arrange a date, and regretfully had to decline the offer, which, however, will be available next year, and will be taken advantage ol early in the season. !The club will meet at Mr. Topliss' - Ruin, Waitui, next Thursday afternoon. is a fine piece of country for hunting overhand a good meet ds expected. . Mir. Topliss is going to great trouble, sparring no less than 52 fences, and is expeating a good gathering of members < and the public. The point-to-point steeplechase takes plaee at Mr. Salway's, Bell Block, on Thursday, 17th inst., for which a permit has been received, from the Minister of Internal Affairs.