The paperhunt on Saturday afternoon waa the long expected event in the Tazang country, and the general verdict sormed U> be that the jumping on. the whole; way good in that district,—but that it was too inaccessible to be worth while #0 long as suitable country is to be had nearer home.
The trail was Jaid by Mr. G. Grayrigge, and minute instructions were seated as to how to ase through the interminable 4nd. unsalubrious native quarter of Chapei, It was noticed that! the area bristles with native soldiers and police, while the often discussed beggar villages and squalid hovels of the poorer natives, resident on the outskirts of the 'Settlement, were much in evidence. It look' a full hour to reach the start, which was just beyond the vilinge of Taxing, and including slight delay at the toll gate where for some reason, money was exacted from some of the cars, but not from others. It will be interesting to note the development in China of this new system of paying tolls to use roads.
Promptly at 3 p.m. the riders assembled were addressed by. Mr. E. 8. Benbow Rowe, Steward in charge, with a few brief words, and were then despatched. The route at first. lay towards the north, but riders soon disappeared in the dust, and little could be seen of their route then, or heard of it afterwards.
It_was learned that, the jumps, first, consisted chiefly of dry ditches some of them rather big, and the jumping on the whole was very sticky. Later, came the district of water jumps, and, though some of them were beauti ful jumps, thors were. too big be taken cleanly, and in oruvling them in whole or in part, some of the ponies got bogged in very soft and slimy mud.
Mr. BL. Newbigging on Wiltshire, and Ins. M. O. Springfield on Harry M. were winners respectively of the Tight and heavyweight losses, and the catch! reads" as follow TH. Newbigging on Wiltshire: 2—A. & Withers' on Night Raiders (Heavyweight). >) ans
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