Instead. of playing football on Saturday the Club had a very enjoyable paper chase in the country to the north of the old Rifle. Range. Shortly after 3. o'clock Messrs. A. L, Hall and 4. E. Cooper, the hares, started out to lay the paper, a dozen hounds following them after an interval of twelve minutes. Passing through the gate-
Rosd, the Tay opposite the ead of North Scechuen course was laid in northerly direction through the village, thence bearing away to the right until the Buffalo Farm was reached, where a false scent was laid to the left, the proper trail leading over the bridge which here spans the Hongkew Creek, thence (another false scent to the
joss house in the courtyard of which were ight) across an evil-smelling creek by a many works (the creek was accordingly christened by one of the hares Barking Creek), round a prettily wooded village when the New Rifle Range came in sight to the N.W. A. spell of rut and furrow which some of the hounds found uncomfortable travel over, then a false scent to the right of a village, the true one running through same, thence on to the hamlet then bearing to the right until the apposite the Butts of the New Range, Hongkew Creek was again reached, the banks of which were followed as far as the outskirts of Li Hongkew, a cross creek necessitating a passage ' through a portion of this unsavoury suburb. As soon as possible, however, a turn was made once more to the right and so across the plough land once more to the bridge by the Paper Mill, thence a few hundred yards through the native hovels, a sharp turn to the right, and the lust handful of paper was Inid" at the Woorung Road entrance to the Old Rifle Range, and the chase ended. The distance was roughly estimated to be about four miles and was covered in thirty minutes,
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