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Show WIRE FENCES WILL IJKJOITI Large Sums of Money Annually Spent by Irish Lords for Outdoor Sport. Special Cablo to The Tribune. DUBLIN, May 7. The amount spent yearly on hunting in Ireland, according to P. Barbour, M. P. H., is $2,500,000. Ireland, ho Baid. was hunted by sixty-nine sixty-nine packs of foxhounds, harriers and stagbounds, with .1800 couples of dogn. Tho number of. horses kept in connection connec-tion with the hunt establishment was at least 4f50, and he OHtimatod the' cost of maintaining those horses and dogs at 65,000 a year. That sum did not include masters' expenses. At a low computation tho rent and maintenance of coverts and cost of oarth-stopping and door-finding would amount to $2ff,000 a year. Quite .'1750 people hunted with the packs, each of whom would spend at the lowest 500 on t their horses, hunting outfit, subscriptions sub-scriptions and traveling, making a total of $1,875,000. The expenditure for the whole of the United Kingdom, said Dr. Barbour, has boen estimated at over $42,500,000. Irish hunting representatives have been before the estates commissioners urtrini? them to do whatever is possible to prevent pre-vent the occurrence of anything which might militate against the existence of tho sport in Ireland. The commissioners commission-ers were most cordial, and desired it to bo known that they Tvere not responsible for tho incrcaso of wire entanglements in lands which had been divided under recent land legislation. As a matter of fact, they were opposed to such fences, but they had no control over tho new tenants, once the land was vested in them. The deputation considered con-sidered the interview most satisfactory, nnd Lord Pingnll thanked the commissioners. commis-sioners. In conversation with a Tribune Trib-une correspondent several hunting men pointed out that tho uso of wire had been growing lately, and it was feared that many wealthy Americans andJEng-lishmon andJEng-lishmon would cease to come to Ireland for the Bport. However, tho assurances assur-ances received from the estates commissioners, com-missioners, who virtually represent tho government, are expected to have a good effect. |