Image TileImage TileImage TileImage TileImage TileImage TileImage TileImage TileImage TileImage TileImage TileImage TileImage TileImage TileImage TileImage TileImage TileImage TileImage TileImage Tile
Image size: 7680x10240 Scale: 35% - PanoJS3
Page overview thumbnail

Article text

is coursikg ' cruel ?
Mr. Mark Mavahall, in «( speech-'at the re
sent Glen Iiwica Coursing Club banquet, de
clared there was a great. deal more im
coursing, than was admitted hy a section oP
'.'.he community.
Mr. Marshall said he- knew of no factor*
that was. destu>&d to play a bigger part:
in the levelling of mankind than the dog-.
To the lover oil'dog^ all /religious differences
were nside; they were all of the on©
mind and'thought. The observer would see
a rich man talking to a poor man in deep
and earnest conversation, and the conversa
tion would, wind up by the rich man-patting
the head of the poor man's dog. . . . Reli
gion was a tender and sacred subject to
them all. Hb was a Protestant, but he felt,
sure that »ot one'of them, if they, were om
the coursing ground and they realised that:
their last moments on earth had arrived1,,
would not gladly grasp the hand of Fatheir
Hynos. ■
• • rnese are some of the reasons," declared
Mr. Marshall, "why I took up the secretary
ship of . the local eoursing club. I am proud
of my association with the club."
Touching m the sporting side of cours
ing, MTv Marshall said there were people
,wha regarded coursing at a cruel pasting
!IIo challenged this statement. "Which h*ro«
had the better chanco : The hare that had',
to fight for his life in the bush, and had to
steal his food from the farmer, or tliehareft
that was' iVcl on English grasses, and oatsi
on tho «oursing ground. Who was'the sports
Tha man who went out with a gun on u
Wednesday afternoon, and sought the hare
that was the prey of so. many denizens of
th.e bush, or the man who set his dog on to
the coursing hare with every1 advantage in.
favour of tM latter ? i
The draw for th.o Maiden Stakes to,- 6?
run at the Richmond River Coursing Glob's
Maizegrove onelosnre, Lismore, on Saturday,
took pines at Rutledge and "Ward's TOoms:
laat night:—Mprrigan v. Mac Elmo, Brindle*
Lad v. Bath's,Boy, Sheridan Lady v.'Guar
dian, Bega-s Hope v. Prim liady, Mors*
Oaila v. Sylva Hope, Society Girl v. Lady.'
llinton.
In thepostponed Class Stake "Welcome1
\fonej meets Three Castles, while John)
8rindie opposes Miss Lawless.
Mr. Cswrl W. Northcott will again occupj"
.ho. jvulge's saddle, while Mt. A. Lardner
\ili control the slips.
The calling of. the card takes place att
. v30 sharp, and thfc fifat course, at 2 p.m-.
$