NARROW ESCAPE.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 962, 22 November 1882, Page 4

NARROW ESCAPE.

The Hawke’s Bay Herald .oi Ihe 28th ult., relates the following narrow escape of two children from serious injuries : “The inhabitants of Waipawa were thrown into a somewhat excited state on Thursday evening, by the vagaries of a half-savage cow. The animal was being driven through the township by a lad mounted on a horse, who appeared, to put it mildly, to have little idea of the pain that can be inflicted by a supple stockwhip. Suddenly the cow bolted, charging at all in her path. The object that caught her attention was a girl about nine or ten years of age, daughter of Mr Holder, watchmaker, who was caught up on the cow’s horns, and tossed in the air. The animal then made a further rush at another little girl, who sought to escape by running into the yard attached to the postmaster’s residence. The child stumbled as she reached the gate, knocking the latter open by her body as she fell, so that When the cow charged her, the impetus of the animal’s rush carried it over the little girl’s body into the yard. Some person ran up and shut the gate, thus securing the furious beast until steps could be taken for its safe removal some hour or so afterwards. It is a wonderful thing that the children rushed were not more seriously injured than-fortunately turned out to be the case, neither of them having received hurls likely to result in worse than temporary disablement.