Related article: The most serious difficulty that is to be anticipated with regard to mules is the appearance of 1900.] CROSS-COUNTRY MEETINGS. 107 horse sickness, to which terrible complaint they are even more liable than horses. All the char- acteristics of horse sickness were tolerably completely described in Baily last September, and it is not now necessary lo pass over well-trodden ground. As long as our armies are in Natal, or on the northern borders of Cape Colony, it is to be feared that very severe, if not crippling losses, may be incurred from this ravaging dis- ease : but when once they have passed the Drakensberg range, they will enter upon a higher plateau, and, though they cannot hope to leave horse sickness alto- gether behind them, it will then probably not be so viirulent and deadly in its attacks. Enough has been said to point out some difficulties, little recog- nised by the general public, which are inevitable in our present war. If unexplained delays occur, if even checks are encountered, they may generally, with perfect reason, be attributed in great measure to the inevitable embarrassments of the Army Transport and Supply Departments. C. Stein. Cross-Country Meetings. In the last issue of Baily ap- peared a letter over the well- known signature '* Borderer," in which the defects of the new r^ulations for Point - to - Point meetings were discussed, and in which the writer urged that the Masters of Foxhounds Association should take upon themselves the control of Point-to- Point racing. We do not propose now to ex- amine the outline scheme for the conduct of Nelfinavir Cancer these meetings as sketched by "Borderer." We will confine ourselves to ex- pressing the conviction that should the Masters of Foxhounds Association Nelfinavir Price see their way to take the matter up, the rules they may think proper to frame will be loyally accepted by all hunting men. We sincerely hope that the Association will come forward to rescue the sport from the fate that now Nelfinavir Viracept threatens it. Point-to- Point racing lies more within their province than within the province of the National Hunt Committee. There are, of course, difficulties in the way of the Association, and one of these, perhaps the greatest, has been anticipated by "Bor- derer." While the matter remains in its present unsettled condition our response to the represen- tations made us may possibly seem premature. If the Masters of Foxhounds Association do succeed in arriving at a modus Vivendi with the National Hunt authorities and take upon them- selves the duty of legislation for Point-to- Point racing ; and if our assistance in the matter of record- keeping, correspondence, &c., will relieve them from the onus of creating the requisite office es- tablishment, we frankly place our services at their disposal. If they do us the honour to accept our aid in this respect we shall welcome the opportunity to ren- der practical assistance to the cause of Buy Nelfinavir the sport. In the Magazine as ** Borderer " sug- gests, we have a ready-made vehicle for publishing the results of meetings every month, and the pages of the *' Hunting Direc- tory," now occupied by ** Win- ners of Point-to- Point Races," only need amplification to form an annual record of these events. > :v' :i *' ^l- 1< \W' • "3? K^l^ .j 109 On the Pacific Slope. Baillie Grohman has en- I sporting opportunities which