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Col. Fane, M. Roy, &c. There was not much 

 sport during the day, hounds finding a brace 

 of foxes at Haydor Southings, and getting 

 divided in a short run by Oasby Mill to 

 Abney Wood. Towards evening Gillard went 

 to Harrowby Gorse, and tried to make out the 

 line of a fox who had decamped early, when, 

 as night came on, the inky clouds over 

 head began to discharge their contents in 

 a blinding fall of snow, sending the field home 

 more like a band of millers than members of 

 the chase. 



By the death of another well-known figure 

 in the Belvoir country. Col. Francis A. Fane, 

 of Fulbeck Hall, which took place at Malta, 

 on the 31st January, 1893, followers of the 

 Belvoir and Blankney packs were deprived of 

 the fellowship of a genial sportsman and 

 country gentleman, whose welcome when 

 hounds met at his residence was most cordial. 

 The gallant officer, until illness prevented, 

 was a frequent attendant with those packs, 

 and especially respected by the farmers and 

 members of the hunt. He took great interest 

 in agricultural pursuits and the breeding of 

 hunters, and was chosen as one of the British 



