COURSING NOTES.

Observer, Volume 6, Issue 150, 28 July 1883, Page 7

COURSING NOTES.

By Spbe.ai> Eagi/e.. —The Waterloo Cup iii Chmtclrurc; : -a-;- • won j by Bed of Stone, Azalin. being the runner v,,. Caprie, Crab-tree, and Legerdemain are ■ fancied for the "Melbourne blue ribbon of the leash. Two dog puppies, by Lord Chancellor, out of Rose, sold at a good Jigure,. to go South. . V — My little girl says she wants one of. those great Sarah Bernbardt dogs that dig the dear delightful "monks oiit of the snow. —Several good dogs are here from the South. Welcome J'ick. Como, Curacoa, and Patience. Mr Ronayne has a couple of his cracks, from the City of the Mr Buckland'a promising brindled bitch ran on to a forfc wlucn was'iefc with the points turned up. She dropped dead instantaneously, the steel running to her heart. - . The Australasian requests secretaries, country clubs, judges, slipper*, puWio tr?mier3, &c, to forward addressed ' immediately,' for insertion iv the new volume of " The Australasian Coursing Calendar." — The English sporting papers have been full . of the' statements made by JMnsley Riobardsin his book '-fcioveu Years at Eton," about cruelty to havo* hunted by the college beagles. A mountain seems to . have been made out of a molehill. A meeting of the Coursing Crab vras hold last Monday, Mr ALoUabe in Lho chair. , Several tenders were read concerning t)?° proposal of forming- a Phvnto". A committee was appointed to view the ground, and report a» early a» podsi'ulo. There is no roi.you why wf; should not have as good a ground here as anywhere, if a little more energy was shown by the members of the A.C.C., many of whom are all there at receiving prize money, but do not roll up- tvt the lbastiuga in the inteivst of sport : butuhere are always dvonos in every ■liivc. \t ay iiavo a .capital . Pjfcsp£= at Chri-chnrch. > No doubt the secretary there would be happy to send. usefui.infornmtion. -, ■? *.>-.*, , v \' : — fllany lovers ( of the leash possibly have never !au :e'n<?Jpse'd' cdursjLng-ground, which is cominbnly' . called 1 a thejeefore;^ .l give, aroagh'. . ,v sketotiWeW-tfl! -^c' ;^one ,;.tt)i:,Kernpt^n,l»ark.whicb. wa9- :-

great, deal .writtqn .about cruelty ifeo animals, but if an enclosed couraing-grourid is properly parried out, vsote hares' get away thair in' the' open, thai 1 is, provided 'the hares are ailowed the uae of the bolt-holes at all times. I may remise , that -Kenroton T^irk,i* an en.nloshre, with , a', rki-ooouiso" iiej.i- ii« oafcy/ boundary.' *iie conies'.njj doeanot trtlte'nMW oh *h« foe.arfonrse. bnfcon a stretch" ot ground opposite to the grand-stand,- as indicated in the,appended plan, i Theharos jvhich are louraed „ are, , except on coursing days, running at large, where they are fed on hfty; carvo's/uud oatsip laced iv 'the covert's. Early in the morning of tho nieeb a large staff of beaters (with the ajd of canvas fences placed up" temporarily) drive as many hurau aa will^ be reiiuired into the first and largest of a series of enclosed paddocka at one end of the covtrsing-ground. Those paddocjia are filled with scrub for cover. The enclosures are separated from one another by fences too high for the hares to jump over. Aa the hares are required, they are driven out from the large into the small paddocks, tho flap at tho bottom of the fence being raised with cords, pulled from the outaide, and quickly droppntf nyiin. Erich small paddock cou+aina one hare. On eke signal being given that all is in readiness, the door is pulled, the hare ruahes from its temporary confinement, and proceeds up alley A. On making- her exit, whore some half-dozen men are placed to keep puss from going to the aide, she ruus forward, and eke slipper, who Las liis greyhounds concealed behiud a fence at B, come 3 out, rifns forward, gives the required law, and slips at tho game. This conr3ing-ground is six or seven hundred yards in length, and it usually lmppeus the hare comes opposite the 5 stand before the do?rs reach her. The course is sufficisiitly wide to £,'ivo her piuuty of room to turn, and on the smooth turf she has a much better chance than on fallow land— in fact, more than two out of four escape. At the upper end, to the extreme left, is a fence of straw or fern, ho loose and open at its lower part that tho hare has no difficulty m bolting- through a small opening in the outer-fence at CU. Should a weak hare be liberated, the head man signals to the men stationed outside to close iv and drive her back, and she escapes by a side e^itrajica into Iho covert. Now, would it not be possible' to arrange with the Kacing Club for the centre of the racecourse at Ellerslie, wich grand-stands already built ? and intent it not be managed to lease auy part outaide for the cover? If not, could it be done at- the North Snore, or. even Henderson's Mill ? I trust that ere long someone at the meeting will suggest a way out of the tlifiiculty.

Mr Tole has . removed to chambers next the BauJfi of Now Zealand, in Queen-street. Messrs John G-rey a.nd Sons are now turning out Gii'?ar Alo of a very; snperior class, a most delicious aiip refreshing beverage^ and' a non-intoxicant. The entries for the Poultry Show, to, he, held in Bucfcland's Yard on Friday and Saturday, close on Tuesday next. ' t On Monday next a general meeting or all those ".Minccki- 1 ! vr.< h (.ha Orimf.ni *vi!' '"- b.-M iv isolv-oii'fc Conn.. -sii'ml i)iui»K K-oms, to m:\kc arraugo iuauts ior tlia diuu^r to bs ii^Jd iv SoijLeuiber On Moudav next, ?.!"- 0. Grreenwood, -will serf by auction^ ?.i. ti-.;- Wa-o;ley Hotel; Qtie<}v.-s?ro<Jt, l)iiii:-ri taole, tnw" eii'.'ib .-, bar tictiu^ pioinres^ nmiiotc , aolfl-i'-i «.i;i3ei'i"»'" : °* ti^Udinsr coining aovvr., in ooiiscMueiice i,i the .', umber not heing suffi? oienb iti : ' Nellie- Gray 'a " Sivi.>; .'to wai-nuit anylidtribu-' tioti bciii" madu, it tha In: >r;ti^i of the promntera ' to have the boofca audited by a competent r-ceountant, and nfterwards organise a swenp out he Melbourne Cup,, in whidn all tho^d'liolding^ictets iv tbe Inr.e swoop, can have their tiefcet exchanged for au equal number in the one for tho Melbouane Gup. .