FATAL ACCIDENT.
[by telegraph.—OWN correspondent.] Whangarei, Thursday. At S a.m. to-day, while James Falls, a boy of 14, was trying to catch a horse, by some accident the tether rope got entangled round his waist, and tlie liorse starting off dragged the poor boy from one end. of the paddock to the other. When stopped the boy was found with his skull smashed in, and quite dead. An inquest will be held this afternoon.
"We have repeatedly," says the Mark-lane Express; '' advised the selling of live stock by weight, both in respect of fat cattle and stores, on the American system, and the feeders of Aberdeenshire and Banffshire are now beginning to see that it will be to their advantage so to do. A weigh-bridge is in existence for this purpose at Turriff, and in the Tarves district a small company has been formed f o preserve and maintain a similar machine. If the system were once started it .would rapidly spread. Quotations would be 'exceedingly simple, and a host of middlemen would find their occupation gone."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6002, 11 February 1881, Page 5
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