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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 58, 16 November 1886, Page 3

" Puff" in the Press ■-—W or d' 1 ' keeping up ! The reaction lias'n't svl in yet! No and I don't believe it's going to set in j That was only a scare got up by some speculators who wanted to turn an hon•est penny! Wheat and barley are leoking up too! Yes, so are. all sorts of colonial produce! there's a goed time coining, boys! Let it come! we can stand any amount ot it ! Taking the Blue Ribband of the English turf alone, I ("Launcc," in the Wanganui Heaid,) fiud that Fred. Archer has "pulled off" no less than fire Derbies .«ince 1877. In that year die rode. Lord Falmouth's ! Silvio, winning the Derby of the North, Lethe St. Leger ou the same horse. In 1880 he steered to victory the Duke of Westminster's Bend Or; the next year h° won for the American tobacco millionare, Mr Lorillard, on Irequois, obtaining the St. Leger again on the same horse. Tom Cannon; was to the front in 1882,. and Wood in 1883 and 1884. But back came Archer again in 1885 with another Derby on Lord Hastings Melton, and once more in 1886 on the Duke of Westminster's Ormonde. In the year 1885 this wonderful rider headed the list of winn« ing jockeys (for ihe 12th time in succession) with 246 wins ihe best on reoord, C. Wood being second with 155. Still another fatal accident— the third within about three weeks —occurred m the Hunterrille district on Saturday afternoen. The victim was Jesse Snellgrove, a young man wellknown inthe Rangitikei district, son of Mr Snellgrove one of the Rangitikei County Council's roadmen. It appears that the deceased was one of a party employed by a subcontractor under Mr Coates in clearing bush >on the Huntervill 5 contract of the Central Railway . The men had knocked off work, and Snellgrove went down to a creek hard by to get a drink. Close at hand was a tree which had been partially grubbed, and a strong' and sudden gust of wind caught this, bringing it down. It fell right across the unfoitunate man, smashing' his skull and killing him instantaneously. News of the melancholy fatality was brought to Marton on Saturday . evening. The remains were brought to the Marton Hotel yesterday and an inquest was held this morning when a verdict of accidental death was returned. — Advocate. '