ACCIDENT NEAR HUNT'S BATTERY.
An accident, resulting in the loss of a valuable team of horses, occurred in the above n ighbourkood on Wednesday afternoon. Henry Rawden, a carter, being engaged in sledging some machinery to the Home ward- Bound Claim, while posing a narrow portion of the track, immediately over Hunt's Battery, the sledge got off the track and slid down the side, dragging the horses off their legs, and causing them to roll over. The chains then parted, and the unfortunate animals wei'e precipitated to the bottom, falling into the kiln in connection with Huut's Claim. Both were killed, and the owner but narrowly escaped a similar fate, The loss falls heavily on a most industrious man. A subscription has been opened in his favour, which it it to be hoped will be satisfactorily responded to.
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Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3512, 17 October 1868, Page 3
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138ACCIDENT NEAR HUNT'S BATTERY. Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3512, 17 October 1868, Page 3
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