MR HUNGERFORD WRITES ME

Otago Witness, Issue 2436, 21 November 1900, Page 40

MR HUNGERFORD WRITES ME

This week I have a letter from our old friend Mr R. C. Hungerford, late of Greymouth, now hard at work on contracts in New South Wale«. ITp wriies i'rom Forster, Cape Hawke, and Fends a lot of particulars about the chase and can tare of Lhe Breelong black?, who were for Fome time in fbe district t^at Mi .Hunsfcrford travele through. The Tilaco where Jiin-my Governor was run to earth is only seven miles from a ppot that my friend' passed regularly. He says -Unit he fulh- oxpecfecl to meet the out3a\7F in some of his night iouriieyfi. but was not afraid, because the black's only interfered with person? who carried armr. The lettei mortlv relates to this subieel and to an account of a chat Mr Huns;erford had with Jimmy Governor after the latter was in custody. Htse afid tliercj

however, the writer branches off into horsey matters. He refers to the wonderful old battler, Wakawatea, and bis recent wins i and says that he is driving Prenez Garde, Wakawatea's brother, in his buggy. Prenez Garde showed pacs for two or three furlongs, but after that died away to nothing. He is bein'- driven in hopes that with ageiand hardness he will stay far enough to justify his being started in a race. Heather Bell s colt by Apiemont, named Peveril of the Peak, is in work, and shows a fair auftunb of pace. Her other foal, a nice chestnut colt by Medallion, promises to be worth keeping. Mr Hungerford has been elected a steward of the Manning River Jockey Club, but is so busy that he hat very little time to attend to sport. He sends his best wishes to Otago and West Coast friends.