forward to with great interest, inasmuch as it creates keen competition among the riders and draws together a great number of the best ponies for cross-country riding, ye, D, Spence wr Blacker.
A, McLeod Blarney.
The distance for the ponies to traverse was estimated to be between six and seven miles, and no time had to be wasted to get from the start to the finish to be there when which are, to the best of the knowledge the ponies came in, Here a great crowd and skill of the Stewards so handicapped of spectators had assembled, the greatest we with time allowances that at the start each; have seen during the season, but there pony, whether good, bad or indifferent, were not many ladies, which was doubtless should be held fo have an equal chance of the result of the finish being so far from carrying off the honour of the day. On the the road. The competitors were only a whole the season has been an exceptionally little over twenty minutes in going the good one for paper-hunting; the weath distance, and the finish was a close and was invariably favourable for the week exciting one, Mr. Daniel and Mr, Fearon hunts up toa few weeks ago, the "fields" were the first to come in sight, accompanied were always abore the average of previous by Mr. Reynell, Mr. Wintle and Mr. years, and as proof that the popularity of the Graven, with several others well up. Mr. sport is increasing with the growth of the Daniel came on at a rattling pace and took Settlement the large assemblages of specta-the tidal creek, a most formidable jump, tors at the starts and finishes need only be in capital style, and thus carried off the mentioned. But the many successful honours of the day. Mr. Fearon, Mr, Hunts of the present season are' scarcely Wintle and Mr. Reynell all came to grief to be compared with the success of at the last jump, but Mr. Wintle managed the closing handicap on Saturday. tu get his pony to the flags for_second combination of circumstances brought honours, Mr, Fearon and Mr. Reynell about a success perhaps unsurpassed in the were outdone for third place by Mr. annals of the Paper Hunt Club. In the Craven, whose pony scrambled through the first place no fewer than thirty-seven ponies last jump. The others came tailing in in were entered, and with two or three exee rapidl succession, and asa rule the ponies tions they all started; the weather was gi took the last jump in good style, The nously fine, the sun shining brilliantly ina, riders spoke of the Hunt as a jolly one clear blue sky—it was, in fact, the best kind thoroughout, of weather that the Shanghai climate can We have been favoured with the follow-produce jand the carriages on the Bubbli ing details of the ran by one of the com-Vell Road were so numerous and their ocpetitors:—Abont half-way Spalpeen, (the cupants #0 gay that the drive to the start, favourite) joined the first Hight consisting from the start back to the finish, and from of about twelve ponies. At the water the finish back to the Settlement, was cal-jump in the hollow, just before reaching culated to enkindle recollections of the the high-land jumps' immediately before scenes on the road to the Derby or the great St. Leger day at Doncaster; th country also. was in fine condition for going, and a capital Hunt was the result.
The run was not over the usual Handicap course, the Stewards choosing the Paper Hunt start behind the village at Siccawei on the Houng-joan Road. Thence the paper was laid to the Handicap line of jumps leading to Jessfield which were taken in, and from Jessfield a circuitous route was taken to the finish over the tidal creek near a small Jus-house behind the village about a quarter of a mile to the west of the Bubbling Well. A largo number of spectators assembled to see the start, but as the ponies wore despatched in lots of about half a dozen, and at intervals of half minute, they did not present such a pretty sight as is soon on an ordinary Paper Bult day, though it was. sight well worth seeing as they went straggling away, the first to go being out of sight when the scratch men started. Out of the thirty-seven entries, the following were the starters Symons on Black Auster Do" Har sequin E, Taumeyer Zucker Schnauzchen (A, Ibert on White Velvet.
W. Howie " Partizan,
Meyer w" Totila, Daniel eae. minute)" Fire-Henry Gringalet.
S. Walker Commandeur, Conjuror.
(A.J. How—on Bellecroft.
Ruegy i" Bessardich, F. J. Maitland 1 ws ester. minute eae, S. Reynell vy Skiddaw. Beebe " Galoot.
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