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of first-rate hounds. The Essex, of which Sir H. 

 Selwin-Ibbetson is master, meeting to-day at Matching 

 Green; the East Essex, Lieutenant- Colonel Jelf Sharp 

 master, at Abbot's Hall ; the Essex Union, Mr. Car- 

 negie master, at Rochford Lawn ; and the Essex and 

 Suffolk, Mr. T. W. Nunn master, at Elmstead Market 

 on Tuesday. In Surrey four packs will commence 

 business the Old Surrey, which hunts the country 

 around Croydon and Godstone; the Surrey Union, 

 around Epsom and Dorking; the excellent pack of 

 staghounds which are now kennelled at Nutfield ; and 

 Mr. Earn ell Watson's staghounds, which hunt the 

 country around Dorking and Horsham. The fixtures 

 of these packs are not advertised, the fear being, 

 if they were, that there would be too large an 

 attendance. 



In Wales the superb pack of Sir Watkin Williams 

 Wynn, which are housed at Wynstay, consisting of 

 sixty couples of high-bred hounds, will commence the 

 season on Tuesday at Rednall. A visit to this fine 

 pack will be a rare treat to any lover of the noble 

 sport who has not as yet seen them. In Cheshire, 

 Captain Park Yates will appear with his pack, which 

 hunts in the vicinity of Northwich, Chester, and 

 Tarporley, and Mr. H. Eeginald Corbet, of the South 

 Cheshire a name celebrated in the annals of fox- 

 hunting will carry the horn, hunting his hounds in 

 right good form. Did space permit I could write of 

 many more excellent packs of hounds, but as I must 

 reserve a place for the crack packs of staghounds, I 

 most unwillingly curtail my experiences, gained by 

 fifty-two years' devotion to the manly and noble 

 sport. 



