BITTER ENEMIES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22352, 25 February 1936, Page 12

BITTER ENEMIES

TWO HORSES FIGHT HOUSE DAMAGED BY HOOFS [fbom our own correspondent] SYDNEY, Feb. 17. A resident of Liverpool, Mrs. G. Mo Laurin, was awakened early on a recent morping by two torses fighting on the front verandah of her home. Mrs. McLaurin's sister. Mrs. Burton, of Moorebank, drove into town and left her pony and sulky at a residence adjoining Mrs. McLaurin's. Puring the night Mrs. Barton's horse, which for years has been at enmity with Mr. McLaurin's horse, broke down the dividing fence and chased it some distance until it cornered it on the front verandah, where the two horses engaged in a real, kicking and biting fight. The squeals of both horses awakened the neighbourhood for a radius of about a quarter of a mile. Several men armed with whips and sticks strove desperately for half an hour to part the horses, but did not succeed until the smaller horse fell bleeding and exhausted on the verandah. Ihe damage done to the cottage was considerable, as the flying hoofs cut the weatherboard wall and verandah, and one window was kicked out, Mr. McLaurin stated afterward that the two horses had'been bitter enemies for years, and it was never safe to let 'them pass each other in the street; but when left at night with a solid dividing fence between them all was considered safe.