PAIR HORSE BOLT.

Northern Advocate, 3 May 1916, Page 2

PAIR HORSE BOLT.

AN AMAZING GALLOP

Yesterday afternoon about two o'clock a pair of horses belonging to Mr Stevens of Maungatapere took fright and bolted. They were harnessed to a buggy, and were standing quietly in Norfolk street, when, Mr Stevens says, they w r ere startled by the report of a gun. A loud report was noticed by others just at this time, in that vicinity. The horses started off briskly, turned into Bank street and gaining momentum down the incline, they galloped furiously 1 past the Town Hall, straight down Bank street, swinging round the Commercial Hotel, with the swaying buggy heeling over like a yacht in a squall. Some people on bicycles crossing the railway were warned back by Mr I. Moore, but the horses swerved to the left and the buggy collided with the post at Langham House. The vehicle was turned completely over, and one of the horses thrown to the ground. It struggled up, and gathered itself for another rush, but before it got away Mr Moore had I grasped the tangled reins, and held on till others rendered help and secured the runaways. Strangely enough the buggy was badly injured, and the horses escaped with a few scratchi es. The marvel was that the buggy 1 met no obstruction in Bank street. Had anything turned out of Cameron I street or .Water street, a catastrophe would have been inevitable.