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the claim questions which would otherwise have to come before 

 the committee. 



Mr. W. B. Paget, as representative of the Quorn Hunt Com- 

 mittee, said that every claim which had been sent to the committee 

 had been settled, and he could assure the meeting that it was the 

 wish of the committee to give every attention to the claims, both 

 for poultry and damage; while the Hunt Committee was anxious 

 that the old committee, which consisted of tenant farmers, should 

 be revived, as they agreed with Mr. Nuttall that it would be of 

 immense assistance in the settlement of claims. 



Mr. Nuttall's motion was then carried unanimously. 



Mr. Bonnell then moved that, in consequence of the large 

 numbers hunting in Leicestershire, it was desirable that the 

 occupiers of land should have a share in the general manage- 

 ment of the Hunt through representatives on the committee, 

 and that was also agreed to. 



Meanwhile Captain Warner had purchased the best 

 of Lord Manners's horses, while the stable was strength- 

 ened with a good many new purchases, several of them 

 coming from Ireland. 



Before cub-hunting was fairly in swing, an alteration 

 in the days of hunting was put on its trial. The custom 

 had been for some time to hunt the country south of the 

 Wreake on Friday and that on the north on Monday, 

 but it was then proposed to reverse that order of things. 

 This, however, was not altogether a novelty, but merely 

 a return to an arrangement which had been in vogue 

 fourteen or fifteen years before. 



In December 1886 the death was announced of that 

 well-known sportsman, Captain Horatio Ross, who was 

 born at Rossie Castle, in Forfarshire, in 1801, and 

 died at his home, Rossie Lodge, Inverness, early in 

 December. 



Lord Nelson was his godfather, hence his name Horatio. He 

 was gazetted to a dragoon regiment, but left the army before he 

 was twenty-five, and took up his residence at Melton Mowbray, 

 then in the zenith of its fame when Captain Ross saw it for the 



