ACCIDENTS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXI, Issue 7222, 23 April 1884, Page 5

ACCIDENTS .

About 11 a.m. on Monday, as a threehorse dray belonging to Mr W. Boag was proceeding along by tho side of the railway line near the Windmill road crossing the horses took fright at a passing train, and the shaft horse fell, injuring its hack. Tho driver informed Mr Boag of the occurrence, and Mr Hill, veterinary surgeon, was sum.moned to attend tho animal, which was a valuable one. As ho thought there might be a chance of saving its life, it was left lying on some grass close to the line in charge of a man named Hodge. Yesterday morning, however, it was apparent that tho poor brute, whoso spine seemed to have been injured, was not likely to recover, and by Mr Boag’s direction it was Bll On Saturday afternoon, while Mr Maindonald was taking homo a load of timber from Oxford to his farm at West Eyreton, he was mot by a tricycle between Carloton and Bennett’s Station, at a point where the road has a very high crown. Iho tricycle frightening the front horse, it ran the road to the fence, and owing to the sudden full the shaft of tho dray pierced the front horse, which died from the injury the next dav. The tricyclist, seeing the horsejwas frightened, stopped about two chains in front and got off to assist, thereby saving fU About d a quartor-past 11 on Monday night a horse belonging to Mr Rountree droppcd dead in Cashel street, m front of the New Zealand Clothing Co.’s promises. It had just been driven to St Albans and back.

and the driver, a man named Williamson, had taken it out of the cart because it appeared to bo ill. There is no suapicioa whatever of the animal’s having been either over-driven or ill-treated.