"NEW CHUM" AND THE HOUNDS. TO THE EDITOR.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2073, 20 October 1885, Page 2

"NEW CHUM" AND THE HOUNDS. TO THE EDITOR.

Silt, — fn your last hsuo I hoc that Mr Now Chum lias been kind enough to convoy a few «>f his " unpi mmous" to the benighted inhabitants of Waikato. Now if you will pcimit me, I may take exception to a few of Mr Now Chum's impressions ; and offer him a little advice. Now Chum begins in .1 most "gentlemanly ' way by stating his own qualifications to judge of the Now Zealand field sport. Jty the w.iy he iuslich to tell us of his driwug tandem to KpHom and Ascot ; to his taking tho odds on the Derby, 1 am inclined to think that wo never Haw <v 1 )erby lun ; and his Epsom refer* to physio and tho gentle thinness of his intnm. A»(s)cot w«s probably tho name of his paternal residence. I quite apt co with Now Chum about tho Pakuranga Hounds ; bu.t .is ho U such a good sportsman, I have no doubt he intends to present tho Waikato witli a better p«ck. In regard to those "daredevil utock-ridcr chaps on their hery inustanir," I may say that the mustang is not common to New Zealand, neither do wo import him from America, though assos are ofton exported here from England by their admiring friends. Perhaps Mi Now Chum can tell us more about tins than T can Tho reason that ho did not sco any of those " daredevil stock rider clmps" at tho meet w that thoy get enough cross-country work in their daily vocation without appearing in public to teach a pack of greenhorns fresh from "Old England" how to rido. I may hero state that amongst tho most prominent promoters of tho hounds in Waikato arc several now arrivals. Beside; those the following is, as ho infoi», principally composed of tho ragtag and bob-tail of tho towns. And now a word of advico to our voidaut friend. This country, though like England in somo lespoct", is different in many. Anton? thes« is the levelling of chinos. The gentleman who has " driven tandem to the JJerby " at Home, is, I am afraid, held m very little higher estimation than tho "moneyed publican" is hero. As long an Now Chum confines himself to print he is n.ifo in the protection of his very appropriate noni do pinmo, but sentiments such as he gives vont to, expressed in a public place, would most likely produce him bodily " impressions" which would hint longer than his muntel ones. This is the land of bunkum, but not of bumptiousness. If he is so woll content with the foxhunting of "Old England," what did ho come here for, unless he \va* sent here for the good of \m country ?— I am, &c., „ T Hamilton, October HJ.

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