A STRUGGLE WITH A BULLOCK.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 859, 4 July 1910, Page 4

A STRUGGLE WITH A BULLOCK.

MAN'S PRESENCE OF MIND.

(By Telegraph.—Special Correspondent.) Feilding, July 3. An accident which would We been attended with serious results if it had not been for tho pluck and presence of mind of Mr. Percy Taylor took place on Mr. T. Scoblc Cornish's projii-rty at Kiwitea last week. Messrs. Taylor and James Fitton had been out after a bullock which had been trespassing on Mr. Scott's property further down the river, and after considerable dilliculty they had got back to the Beaconsfield end of Mr. Cornish's property, where the animal broke away into the bush. They had to follow it on foot, and, in endeavouring to force tho animal on, Mr. Fitton's foot slipped, and in an instant the biff four and a half-year-old bullock was on him, inflicting a very severe wound. As soon as Mr. Taylor saw what had happened ho threw himself on the beast, and grasping a horn in each hand by sheer strength forced its head np and shouted to Mr. Fitton to get away. Half stunned tho latter managed to crawl behind a tawa tree, and when Mr. Taylor saw that he had reached a place of comparative safety he sprang aside and released the snvagn animal. Mr. Taylor was able to take Mr. Fitton home and ride over for Dr. Bcedlo.