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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 814, 20 June 1879, Page 2

The Wanganui Herald relates, that while a train was travelling along about three miles the other side of Halcombe a cow gob on the line. The speed was at once slackened and. the whistle blown, bwfc the cow started oft' j in, front of the train, along the line, and could not be' induced --'to* -quit' it. The! chase lasted for about a mile, when a bridge was reached, which the cow : endeavoured to cross, but slipped between the sleeppers, and there stuck. There was nothing for it but the passengers getting out, and helping to remove the cow from her .uncomfortable I position. -They all worked with a will, one individual however, being ao energetic at the tail, that it at last gave way,, and he went- head over heels into the creek below. The cow at last slipped through the bridge, and was seen going down the stream, but evidently seriously hurt. Had the engine caught; the cow -in the position it wasj in, nothing could have prevented a serious acoident.