ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
A horse attached to a vehicle "bolted from in front of Messrs Recce and Soif and collided with a dray standing in tjje' vicinity of Messrs Tonks, Norton and Co;* The horse broke one of its legs, and was taken to the City Hotel right-ot-way where, three bullets were tired into it. These were not efficacious in killing the animal, and a outcher completed its extinction by cutting its throat. On Friday last Br. H. Compton Parsons met with an accident on the Jiyreton road, through the horse which he was driving in a gig baiting. He was thrown put and received a badly sprained ankle a.*, well as several braises. A child escaped unhurt. The horse was not injured, but the gig was smashed.
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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 10264, 6 February 1899, Page 2
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