Hatk! the brave north-easter! Breast high lies the aceut, tula O:i by holt aad headland, .' Over h ath and bent Chime, ye d ippled darlings, Though the Ocet aid snow ; Who can override you ? Let thu hoi Bt s go! The announcement that the Otago Hounds -wculd meet on Saturday wa? tbe source, of pleasurable disa) pointment to s »me and of actual disappointment to other*?. Many, think ing that the next; mfet would be on the 18fch instant, had made engagements which w era not to be broken. The fact, also, that tKe deserv edly popular master, Mr-Bradley, had mot with a rather serious accident, made ifc the les? likely that his pack would meet. Although Mr Bradley will not ba able to follow his "Ij^le dearies" for some fme, he managed to find ma way to Green IsHud on Saturday in a tax-ca t, in which he eat apparently longing to be in the sniddle of the fun, and chafing under restraint. Oh, how cold it was goinsf over Lo k-out Point ! Those wbo were not the fortunate pos sessors of dog-carts or- cover hacks, aud hal to bo slowly to save their cattle, shivered aa the south- west wind pierced through their overcoats like a knife. After au hour's cold ride the rendezvous wan reached, Mr Ta^garfc, who had assumed the care of the hGundp, made his appearance sharp to the minute, and lost no time in sending the dragsman off to "pesnt the dewy air " with the " balm of Gilead." A .short time was allowed to pass to give the less punctual a chance of seeing the throw-off, after ■which a start was made along the district road leading to Lloyd's farm. Tne hounds looked very well as they trotted along, some 12 couples •.strong, and they turned out to be as good as they looked. Morris Glasiett, wbo was riding i Mr Petrß's horae Turk, had besn duly installed ' iiuntsman pro tern, (or- should I, in this land of joint-fstock companies s*y interim hunts man?) and seemed to poßSees some skill in houndcraft. The scant had been laid from the aforesaid road into a grasß paddock on th-3 left, and old Banjo was, as usual, the first hound to challenge. 