HORSE v. BICYCLE.

Northern Advocate, 2 July 1887, Page 3

HORSE v. BICYCLE.

Sm,— l hope you will allow me space to answer Mr Dobbie and Onlooker's letter about the accident, with me and Mr Dobbie. Now the facts are these: I saw Mr Dobbie coming down the road on his bicycle when he was about fifty yards off, I. drew off the middle so as to allow bim to pass on the smooth part of the- road, Mit when I had got within forty yards of him my leader got frightened and ran round to tho near side. Mr Dobbio still kept coming, and when I got her -round again Mr Dobbie was right in front of the mare, .not a yard from her head. Now, Mr Dobbie says that he got •ff, but he fell off, and the^ picked up his bicycle and stood it againgt the wall before he came to my assistance. Now, if Mr Dobbie had stopped when., he Baw the mare was brightened the accident -would not have happened, or had he gone off the middle of the road ; but he kept fair in the middle, and I havo witnesses to prove it. Now I lost a mare that cost me twenty-five pounds through Mr Dobbie and his bicycle, and he never was the man to ask me hp^ she was. C J I spent a fortnight in trying to^ave her. The shaft ran into her nine inches, and touched her back bone. Nowjlchallango Mr Dobbie to meet me with any gentleman in Whaugarei he likes to mention, to contradict what I have stated, for I have witnesses to prove all I have stated is correct with regaiiJ. to the accident. " By publishing this you will oblige the looser. f; - . ; . ' * ; ; ■;HS_«rinr Cheeseman. : Kamo.