HUNTING IN WAIKATO.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2079, 3 November 1885, Page 2

HUNTING IN WAIKATO.

io I'HK r.niroit. Sm,— "New Chum' 1 is evidently wrathful th.it " Old Identity " .should h.u c urn oiled his implied a>seition re the " tandem," for although " New Chum," did not state in so many vvoids that ho had dii\cn " tandem," ho nio-al surely endeavouied to induce your nudois to believe that such was the case. Now, Sn, I am neithei .111 " Old Identity " nor ;i "New Clnun," but might subscribe myself "a little of both." Hunting has Ween a favouiHe pastimo of mine evei sinco I cmld faiily balance my-elf in the saddle. ! I have hunted in England with the j " l'ytchley," the "Quoin," tho " Hadiniuton," and the "<^ueon'n." In Ireland at the Ciniagh. H.i\o done my shiuo over i Aii-ti.iluu "t\uibev" ivftcr the kaugaioo, and have had many an enjoyable d ly, and thru ough sport, too, with the Pakuranga hound-. So you may imagine I have seen some curious asvutment- 111 tho mattei of " hunting fields" and also that it has been my lot t> load cutujues, both "giavo and Kay," on tho doing- of the day ; but never in .ill my e\pciii>nco have I peiuscd any ailicle so utteily devoid of gentlemanly feeling and good tasto as th.it of " New Chum "in your issue of the l"»th inst. " Old Identity " let him down latlier too easily. A little more seventy would peihaps have been btMii-hcial. In "New Chum's" leply to "Old Identity" what a jefinement ho oxhibits in hii identification of "0.1 " with the butcher-boy ! Is it not truly lefreshing to contemplate that New Zealand «h«uld have boon honouied with the advent of "New Chum?" I'eili.ips "New Chum," will assert that we bhoidd not expect gentlemanly articles fiom his pen, he being n<> gentleman. Such an as!,oitiou would siuely li« siiporHuotis ! He says that without doubt ho is of a uportmg tendency. This may bi\ [ have known many gentlonien (save the mark) -if a sporting tendency who haw been rathur ton sportive, who have found laco nurting-- and coui-ing giounds good medium- f«n adispliyof their t dent, and lnve genei illy enrlcrl a biii'f but biilli.int caioer by cithei beintr w anted off, <u iguoiiuuiouily kicked off tlio-e com sen winch they chanced to favour with their piesuncu. Has tins bwn the cisc with "New Chum.'"' And is tin-, the caUM* that Miv fan l-land is blc-.-ied with the lesul'TC (l (1 t u- hope but a temporal y oil' ) of an indiMdual without the common in-tnirt- of man? He appeir- to fancy that he has 1 confencd gioat hoiioui on those of whom ho has wiitten. Does lie take his tone from Minilat honour- that have ft inn time to time b"eti bestowed upon himself ' In conclusion, Mr Kditor, d i not let " New Chum "think that I .1111 0110 of tlin-o who have ieceivi-d " honourable mention ' ntlns li.iikU, mil that lam too "e.levatiMl " to be clawed in the category with them, aw many a generous heart beats under a rough coat, but because I would not Inn 0 him imigine that spleen was an incentive for tho lemarks of youis very faithfully, Yh\ir\ii Orel nidi h Moiusu. Uangiaohia, Oct. 'Mh, 13STi.

Tin; novelty of h »v ing one of the decks of a steamer fitted up as a skating-rink is to be introduced in New York this summer. The vts<el is to make trip 3 up the Hudson in the daytime and be moored at her v mrf at night, when tol'cr skating w,n bo indulged iv.