Serious Accident at Parnell.

Auckland Star, Volume IX, Issue 2516, 17 April 1878, Page 2

Serious Accident at Parnell.

A VERY serious accident, which it isjeareil j may end fatally, occurred yesterday after- j noon to Montague McMurdo, a boy: of tea, the eldest son of Captain Mcl\_T»do, t» insurance agent. Montague, and hu brother Cecil met their father omhorsebacK at the junction of the Parnell toad, near Mr Kissling's, about five o'clock, and 'wera requested by him to take his horse home, «• he wished to go to the tennis gro"?'r Montague got on the horse, whicjj is a very qiuet one, and Cecil : walked beside it, carrying Capta"l j McMurdo's spur. After they ha_ K°» c a short distance Montague wanted W I ride faster,' and finding bg- could net gej I the horse to go out of a walk, persua*ja his brother to let him pu.4 on a spur. » 1 then pricked the horse v which bec»B» sj excited, started off at a gallop, and f» soon beyond his control. Becoming j frightened, he tried to. throw himadf m | and ultimately fell heavily opposite^ Kissling's house. He- was picked up"? | Mr Kissling's man, and carried nw> ■£ 1 house. Soon after- his father and Wj» arrived, and carried; him down home^ *. half-an-hour he was quite sensible. W? the wounds in his, head bled badly;:""! end of that time- however, he suddenly « came insensible, and Dr Hames, w_oj of called in, pronounced the case ji*"6*!^ concussion of the brain. Throughout^ w night his Me was dispaired. of, but; morning he is a little better. {The boy » , accustomed to ridiug, so that there .^ nothing unusual or extraordinary,^jj being entrusted with his fathers take home. Without spurs the aniß"" perfectly safe for even a child r? ride..