A wood-carter named George Archer, residing fit Brunswick, Victoria, had an extremel) unpleasant experience brt January 12. Having proceeded to Diamond Creek with his father on the previous day, he was engaged loading for the return journey, when one of the horses, which had been recently purchased, and was not known to have any vicious propensity, dug its teeth into his left forearm. Archer's efforts to extricate his arm only made matters worse, and several seconds elapsed before his cries brought his father to his assistance. Archer, senior, then struck the brute a violent blow over the head, and it let go its hold. The injury sustained was serious, and, in spite of the great pain it caused, the sufferer rode barebafck to Melbourne;,, a distance of 21 miles, in order that it might be attended to at the Melbourne Hospital.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10969, 25 January 1899, Page 5
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