SERIOUS ACCIDENT ON FRANKLEY ROAD.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 7112, 9 July 1886, Page 2

SERIOUS ACCIDENT ON FRANKLEY ROAD.

A vkiiv serious accident happened on Wuilnfcbdiiy evening to a Mr. Arnold, who is settled on the Frankley Iload. Mr. Arnold and his son were felling bush, but at (iLout 4 pm. tho son left, having an appointment with Mr. Wood, a neighbor. Wh'lat he was away ho heard a tree full. The hound of chopping not continuing, the son coo ed, but getting no reply, went closer to the place, and could hear 11 sort of moaning noise. He then hastened back to Mr. Wood, who ran to tho spot an-1 found Mr. Arnold on his hands and knees, with his face covered with blood, and a pool of blood uloagsido him. Mr. Wood took the unfortunate miin in his arms, and carried him to a house. Dr. Gibbts was ut onco .sent for. The next morning Mr. AinoM was brought into town, and now lien in n critical condition at the residence of hia son-in-law, Mr. Lye. Tho injuries consist of si fractured skull, thoro buing quite a cavity at the top of the head, disclosing the brain. The doctor statis that it wub better that the skin over the brain should have been broken, and so allowed tho blood to escape. If the blood hud not eHCiipcd it would have biiil'used Che brain, rendeiing death inevitable. Mr. Arnold bad recovered conscioubnesa very soon after being struck, but has become too weak to speak. From tho surroundings of tho spot where tho accident occurred, it Beems that Mr. Arnold had felled a white-wood tree, and had then stepped back a few yards to get cl'ar of it. 'I ho top, however, caught in a tawa, and a limb from tho falling tree snapped off. and recoiled back, striking Mr. Arnold with tho result as stated.

The New Plymouth Harbour Loan Bill wa a carried last night in tho Houfo by the large .1.. j 'ty of 26— the division list published tAuwhere showing the ayes 39, noes 13,

' One of the draught horses belonging to f the Taranaki Harbour Board has come by i its death in a very simple manner. In the I paddock in which it grazed waß a quantity of hay belonging to Mr. Bayly. The horse got to the fodder, much to the annoyance of someone who thought he would act in Mr. Bayly's interest by chasing the horse about as a punishment. After a little of this chevjing the animal fell dead. There was nothing the matter with the animal, and the event would show that heavy horses cannot stand much running about.