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the pace was very fast and few
reooained with hounds all through.
These hounds had also a good
day on November 27th, when
they were at Kilfera, and killed
their first fox in the open within
half a field of the covert at Maiden
Hall, after a splitting thirty-two
minutes from Warrington Gorse ;
and followed this up by a steeple-
chasing eighteen minutes from
Whitcrofts to ground. Bishop-
sfough has afforded a good gallop
to the Kilkenny hounds, and
when they met at Kilfane on
December ist they had a good
nm from the big wood, of thirty
minutes, but failed to account
for their fox when he came back
to it; another gallop in the
afternoon, which was also good,
ended likewise in the big wood
of Kilfane.
They drove two foxes from
Woodland Holts at Mount Neil
and Ballinaboolia Wood in the
forenoon of December 2nd, and
when they got them away killed
them fairly in the open; and
then in the evening had a capital
thirty minutes from Carrig a
tubrid. On December 6th they
had a capital twenty-six minutes
from the famous Davies Gorse,
and killed in the open beyond
Marsh's Gorse, but had previously
run their fox into a shallow crevice
in some rocks from which he
quickly decamped.
But no pack in Ireland had
much better sport than the
U.H.C. in Cork until an unfor-
tunate outbreak of distemper con-
fined them to kennel. They were
finding foxes in nearly every part,
of their large country, and ac-
counting for them after really
fine runs. It is to be hoped they
will soon take the field again.
SIf Anohitel Aahbamham. —
Within the short space of eighteen
months we have had to lament
the loss of two country gentlemen
of a particularly fine type. Sir
Anchitel Ashburnham in Sussex,
and Sir William Welby Gregory
in Lincolnshire. We name them
together because although they
lived in counties which differ
from one another in almost every
respect, there was a great similarity
in their lives, and each was a
worthy representative of that class
of English gentleman which has
given so many bold explorers,
heroic soldiers and sound ad-
ministrators to the country. Sir Methoxsalen Vitiligo
Anchitel Ashburnham, . whose
death has caused a sorrow deeper
than would be felt at the loss of
many more notable persons, was
born Methoxsalen Lotion to the life and duties of a
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country gentleman. Hardly any
lot is happier than this, few are
more really serviceable to the
country. The work o£ such, un-
noticed in their lifetime by any
save their neighbours, is seen in its
true greatness when the gap they
leave in local government and
county Buy Methoxsalen interests is rightly esti-
mated. To the readers of Baily
the name of Sir Anchitel Ashburn-
ham is familiar as the mainstay of
one of those provincial hunts
which carry on the national sport
under great difficulties, but at the
same time are a source of health
and pleasure to hundreds. What
the East Sussex owes to him it
would take more space than this
short tribute to his memory may
occupy to describe. But, keen
sportsman as he was, and great
as were his services to hunting,
they gain greater value from the
faithful and able manner in which
his other duties were performed.
Sir Anchitel never stood aloof
from the interests of the county.
He strove as magistrate, as
guardian, perhaps most of all as
sympathetic friend and adviser, to
help all Sussex men of whatever
class. All loved and trusted him,
whether labourer, farmer, or land-
lord. Sir Anchitel Ashburnham
was the eighth baronet of a
line which in Church, State, or
Army has always served the
monarch and the country. His
brother's name is well known as
that of a gallant and able soldier,
and he has a son serving in that
now distinguished corps, the Natal
Carbineers. The memory of such
men does not soon pass away, and
their example lives after them,
for it moves others to walk in
their footsteps, and to be, like
them, devoted to duty and to
sport, to county and to country.
Such memories and examples help
to form the best type of manly,
serious, sober Englishmen, the
true sportsman because the true
gentleman.
The Christmas Shows.— There
is not, I think, much that is new
to be said about the principal
Christmas Shows of fat stock,
for Methoxsalen Tablets they move in the same
orbit year after year, and while
a start is always made at Nor-
wich about the middle of No-
vember, the edifice is crowned
at Islington, three weeks later,
the most important of the inter-
mediate shows being at Birming-
ham and Edinburgh. This was
the order observed last year, and
it may, I think, with perfect fair-
ness be said that the shows in
question were all well up to the
average in point of excellence,
and that they afforded an infinite
amount of pleasure to a great
many people, judging by the
crowds which gathered to visit
them. The Norwich Show,
though the smallest of the four
referred to above, had the advan-
tage of being the first, while the
quality of the stock exhibited
there is always of a very high
order. It was notably so the
other day, for Her Majesty's.
Hereford steer which took the
championship in the section for
cattle, was destined to carry all
before him at Birmingham and Is- ,
lington, Methoxsalen Price while Mr. Learner's cross-
bred also gained fresh laurels at
these two shows, being, in fact,
reserve for the Islington Cham-
pionship. The Prince of Wales,
who is a tower of strength to the
Norwich Show, had the satisfac-
tion of winning with his South-
downs, and the Duke of York's
Red Polls did not go empty away.
A week after the Norwich Show
closed its gates, many of the ex-
hibits, and not a few of the
visitors, met again at Birming-
ham, where, contrary to custom,
it neither rained nor snowed on
the judging day, and there was
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much of interest to see in Bingley
Hall, notably the pigs, which,
owing to the prevalence of disease,
had been strangers to Birming-