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catching a view, coursed him for two or three fields, three hounds running finally 

 into him close by the river Trent, opposite Orgreave. Time, just thirty 

 minutes. 



Found again, a weakly fox in a new covert by the coppice, and it seemed as 

 if every moment would be his last ; but we changed and got on to a banging 

 light-coloured fox, which crossed the Yoxall road, and ran by HoUj'bank Cottage 

 to Hollyhurst, where he bore to the left, crossing the road leading to Yoxall 

 Lodge, and on to Longcroft. Here we checked through false information, but 

 recovering the line, we ran by Woodlane Bridge to Morrey. From this point 

 our fox's line was for Eough Park, which he left at the right hand corner, and I 

 here thought that he meant Blithe Moor, but he crossed the Bentilee and Gullets 

 farms, and ran, leaving Hoar Cross to the right, for the Birch Wood. Here we 

 most hkely changed, as a few minutes later hounds marked a clean fox to gi'ound 

 in a watercourse near to Hoar Cross Hall, after we had been running two hours 

 and ten minutes, part of it at a good pace. The run was a six to seven mile 

 point, and twice that distance was covered by hounds. May next season bring 

 us better sport and better weather than the past, and runs equal or superior to 

 this, is the wish of your old correspondent 



Needwood. 



The new names in the subscription list were Capt. 

 Dugdale, Park House, Radburne ; W. E. Elwell, East 

 Lodge ; H. S. Hoare, The Ash, Etwall ; Lord Maghera- 

 morne, Needwood ; Capt. H. McBean, Ashbourne ; F. 

 Poyser, Sudbury, Derby ; J. Stewart, Wyaston Grove ; 

 and Capt. the Hon. K. St. Lawrence. 



Field, April 4th, 1891 :— 



THE MEYNELL HUNT. 



The annual meeting of the Meynell Hunt was held in the Town Hall, 

 Uttoxeter, on Wednesday last, at 3 p.m. The chair was occupied by Lord 

 Bagot, and there was a large muster of the gentlemen of the Hunt and tenant 

 farmers. In the absence of the secretary (Mr. Newton), through illness, the 

 minutes of the previous meeting were read by Mr. Boden, and duly confirmed. 

 The latter gentleman also proposed a vote of condolence to the Master of the 

 Hunt (Mr. Hamar Bass), and to Mrs. Bass, in their bereavement through the loss 

 of their son. This was seconded by Major Buncombe, and carried unanimously. 

 The balance-sheet for the season ending October showed a deficiency of close 

 on £400, but the subscriptions for the present season (amounting to £3060 16s.), 

 being greatly in excess of the previous year, would help in a gi-eat measure to 

 reduce the debt. 



