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five packs of hounds in Victoria alone. In the colony 

 the pursuit of jackals, or *' corn-fed kangaroos," is no 

 longer necessary. Foxes have been imported, and 

 are too plenty. In the very interests of the pastoral 

 inhabitants, it will be necessary to keep the " red- 

 men" down. And when the sporting history of this 

 already great country comes to be written, men must 

 connect with the names Watson and Carlow the 

 initiation and establishment of a noble sport. Mr. 

 George Watson has not permitted, in his pursuit of 

 the splendid fortune he has acquired, his early pro- 

 clivities to be diverted ; and the Australian Calendar 

 has no name of a gentleman rider with so many 

 " brackets" opposite as his. 



