THAMES NEWS.
[By TELEGRAPH. —OWN' CORRESPONDENT.] Thames, Wodnesday. .Mr. J, W. Walker, better known as Long Drive Walker, left here this morning for Auckland en route to Mount Zeehan silver fields, Tasmania.
Mr. Stewart, traveller for Wingate, Burns and Co., ironmongers, Auckland, narrowly escaped serious injuries this afternoon. At the time he was riding in a spring cart with Mr. A. Menzies along Pollen-street, when the horse took fright and started off at a great pace, and when rounding tho corner at the Cornwall Arms Hotel the animal shot on to the pavement, *ith tlio result that tho cart come into collision with the building. • The force of contact threw Mr. Stewart bodily through a window, but he fortunately escaped with alight cuts on one of his arms and some "light bruises, whilst Mr. Menzies escaped with slight injury to ono of his legs.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8668, 10 September 1891, Page 5
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