Each county has its premier pack fox hounds, generally called by the name of the county, but as is customary in every hunting vicinity' there are innumerable local scratch packs in the season, Besides the fox, Rounds there are' harriers hunting hare, fox and oceasionaly deer. gan be seen readily, the nature of outing in this country calls for hunters of exceptional calibre, and Tipperary ig noted for its breed of fine horses, The farmers breed horses not only for the countryside tut for the English market also and English dealers comb the vicinity verularly, in order to. infuse into hunting: across the Channel some the godd points of these particular horees. Many of the breed have teen Grand National winners in the pant, +08 the hounds it cannot be said tint they. differ greatly from there found. elsewhere, except that sometimes in appearance they are a little more homely, according to Mr. Springfield. They are essentially} adapted to the country found in Tipperary and South Ireland and avery one who rides to hounds knows that as much of the joy of the chase accrues from hound work as sell as from the actual riding.
The malto of the countryside is to "ride to hunt and not hunt to vide" according to Mr. Springfield, who explained that, cutting down tactics are non-existent, the mai thing being: to follow the chase for the joy of it, without "jealous" riding.
THE wholesale price of rice yesterday ranged between $15.60 and, $17.10 per picul, whilst the ret price was from $13.80 for ordinary, quality Saigon to $17.40 for best Chinese, Dr, John Alison, the former Head master of Wateon's Schoo, Cine bing, has brought' a fa move story fo Shanghai, concerning a welinown Jewish "fnanciah magnate who has a passion for racing and Cultvates "a"certain fatal: Rose: Wance to the late King Edward. An American acquaintance "told Dr,
of, "Hamlet" in a annesbut Aug tian pertormanes theatre he occupied a seat next {ip financiers At the point where Ihe Sloge la covered with a variety dead and dying, the financier suddenly turned upon him ins rents of jereat excitement, and aald, "Sai ea You tell me, who, wrote this play?"
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