The weather was fine and warm on Saturday afternoon; in fact, too warm for comfort in hunting. The meet of the Paperhunt Club at 3.50 p.m., however, was attended by as large a crowd as ever, and about 100 riders started and the number of spectators was considerable.
The hunt was laid by Mr. B. D. F. Beith, and the start was at Springfield Line, behind Siccawei Observatory, where promptly at 3.30 p.m. the Master led off over the line of jumps which leads towards London Town. The dust was very bad and the long stream of paperhunters could be followed for a very long way by the cloud of dust that enveloped each individual rider.
The finishing jump was a dry creek Bottom, very wide, with bad take-off and bad landing, and practically every pony in the early portion of the hunt fell, er landed badly. The first two riders, Messrs. R. Moon and J. K. Brand, who had just overtaken Mr. Benbow Rowe, both fell, one to left and one ta right, and the last named just managed to keep his pony on his feet until it passed the flags. Mr. H. S. Lindsay was second and Mr, J. K. Brand, who remounted quickly while all the rest of the field had come to a dead stop, managed, in spite of his fall, to get in third.
It would appear, however, that the Wobbly Creek had not been jumped by the foxes in the usual place, but that they had travel-d parallel with the creek for a considerable distance before. passing it at a platform, and had then returned along the mile-long length of Jim's Joys to Jim's Platform, and all this the hunt had missed out, about two miles of run, Only Mr. Schoch had found the right way, but he was too far ahead for anybody to seo or hear him, so, in accordance with the usual practice in such cases, the Stewards found that the day's event would have to be declared "no hunt."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.