Fatal Accident
FURTHER PAItriCULARS.
A serious and fatal accident hapDenedat the small farm settlement, Pahautanui, on Sunday morninor last. A youth, between 16 and 17 years of a^e, the eldest son of Mr James Pearce, of ther Pahautanni, Small Farms, started lon horseback shortly after 5 o'clock m the morning, with the intention, of carrying a parcel out to Pahaatapriii and, a3 he had not returned about. 8 . o'clock, the fa&er vbacame , alarmed, arid went to look for iJ himi The horse was forind without ; a rider m Nlr .Stace's paddock, .and eventually the iouth^was found . lyiii» .Scad' witH ; his iieck broken and his : head doubled under the body, 'down a steep bank jnst m front of Mr Pearce'.^ house. Ib would appear that he had just mmintdd the horse and was lifttii-> the parcel off a bank by tho roadiaide, When the liorse • must hare shied and, thrown him down the bank below the road; '.' !
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 57, 31 January 1883, Page 2
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156Fatal Accident Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 57, 31 January 1883, Page 2
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