THE FATAL ACCIDENT T AT TE AWAMUTU.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8927, 16 December 1887, Page 5

THE FATAL ACCIDENT T AT TE AWAMUTU.

[BY TELEGRAPH.— OWN CORRESPONDENT.) *j Tβ Awamotu, Thursday. An inquest on the body of William Millar, aged eight years, son of Mrs. Mary Millar of this place, was held in the Courthouse this morning by Mr. Gresham, Coroner, and a jury of seven, of whom Mr. J. B. Teaadale was foreman. From the evidence of two boys, sons of Mr. Wilson and Mr. Horton of Auckland, who are staying with the iiev. Mr. Mather, it appeared that they and the deceased, and two of his brothers, were practising riding on a quiet horse. When the deoeased took his turn, he asked the boy who led the horse to let go the rein, as he oonld ride. The boy did so, and as the horse trotted off the deoeased pulled him round, and falling over the tide, hung down with one foot through the stirrup leather. The horse was startled and bolted, and in about three hundred yards rushed through a barbed wire fenoe into a vacant allotment. Mr. Walton and Mr. Ernest Ryburn, who were near the fenoe, caught the horse and released the boy, who was quite unconscious. Dr. Fairman waa soon on the spot, but could do nothing, and the boy expired in a lew minutes. The jury did not retire, but gave in a verdioc of "Accidental death." Much sympathy is felt for Mrs. Millar, whose husband died here three years ago this month.