A STREET SENSATION.
At half-past three, yesterday afternoon, a horse harnessed to Mr Wheeler's baker’s cart, bolted from Waltham, throwing tire driver off the cart, and came, up Lower High Street. The runaway kept safely on till he reached the intersection of Colombo and Armagh S.kcts, xvhere he struck a four-wheeled vehicle belonging to Mr reareon, carrier, which it overturned, and broke a shaft and the ■swxngletree. Another four-wheeled vehicle with two-horses was coming along, and one of the horses broke away altogether, and made its way towards the Colombo Street Bridge. Just here, where the crowd that had gathered was' thickest, the horses were brought up, and the broken shafts were temporarily repaired. Some four or five vehicles suffered more or less damage, but when the reckoning came to be made there was found to be no very .great injury done after all. Nobody was 1 hurt, though the driver of Mr Pearson’s cart was rather hurriedly shifted from his seat to the road.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12429, 19 February 1901, Page 6
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165A STREET SENSATION. Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12429, 19 February 1901, Page 6
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