AWATUNA EAST.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8932, 26 June 1905, Page 3

AWATUNA EAST.

i, iFrom Our Own Correspondent.) .' Last sale day, as a number of steers j were being driven past Howitt's store, one- " of them got detached from the main mob, and in being rounded up made a dive for the half-open door of the store, and rushing in past a patent medicine stand j and a, fancy crockery table without doing any damage, pushed its way through a. long but narrow opening into the back storeroom, where it stood at bay in tho most menacing fashion. Unfortunately the

back door of the storeroom was bolted

from the inside, and any attempt to unbolt : it might have been met by a toss on tho head of the bold steer, who was now 1 master of the situation. All of a sudden it flashed into his head that he would go out the way he came in, and he made a bound for the narrow opening .between the store and the storeroom, which this time he failed to negotiate and got stuck in the middle of it. AH his struggles to Ret through were in vain, and the position looked serious as the animal tossed his head at the onlookers, a large number, including a dozen school children, having congregated to see "a bull in a' china shop." Eventually one man, with considerable presence of mind and not a little daring, jumped on to the animal's back, and crawling along it got down at his hind feet into the storeroom and was thereby enabled to unbolt the back door. Another farmer got a long pole, and prodding the animal on the face managed to get him to go back and subsequently out at the open back door.