The coursing or hunting of foxes and hares on our plains has, for some yea been in abeyance in consequence of the prevalence of water and the consequent destruction of rules and lepnes in our neighbourhood, On the 8th inst. the goo! old sport was re-established, and the experiment was accompanied by a success which augurs well for the future. Six of the Australian hounds were taken over to the East Arsenal plain in a waggon belonging to that hard riding and enthusi s-tic sport,' Von Hanneken; soon after the first couple of dogs were slipped a strong hare was started, and away went the whole field. 'There great' enthusiasm all round, so, much so, that an excited mafoo in his new character of Nimrod override one hound. The good beas WHS not much hurt: he was tried again later on, and before the day was out pulled down a puss very cleverly. Another dog fas pro tem. substituted for ned one, and a fine course was finished just as the hare was darting into a ii'let stir In_the next run the whole field, except the Master, Mr. James Stewart, and the First Whip, Mr. Hutchinson, got pounded in an enclosure surrounded by a deep ditch; this proved a crux. "A heary-weight went through the ice in clearing. the difficulty; he got out easily enough and eontinued the course and the rest of the day's sport with great pluck, although in a very moist condition in his lower half.
The fourth course saw the finest sport of the day and illustrated finely the ability of strong plain hare. The oldest hands put the distance down at three and a half miles, but the horses by the testimony of their heaving flanks clearly thought it more like six. The Master stopped proceedings, in his care of the hounds, after the fifth run the sixteen riders who were out returned full of enthusiastic praise of the dogs and sport generally. The five starts had Give kills. The present condition of the hounds after their long voyage, and_ their "form" on their first trial, give highly favourable prospects for the winter. The almost: wholly mounted on Arabs lers; -till if one gets a China pony jump, he is not to be despised as a "mount" for coursing.—"Peking and tsin Times."
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