GORED BY A WILD COW.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVI, Issue 7661, 18 October 1893, Page 3

GORED BY A WILD COW.

-p? ( OTTHEMpETAtI/>.October.lG. Some further details have come to hand with regard to the accident to Mr Percy Monk. It appears that "he was not at Paero&i his father's estate, but at Kaukapakapa, where he has a statioq of his ■ own, and .was; with .others on horsebaok mustering cattle, when a wild cow (which had gored and killed a.horso a week or ( so previously) charged him. Thb horse stuck in the marshy ground, and with his foot in the stirrup, he endervoured to head the cow off by making ajkiok at her head. Her horn, unfortunately, ; caught him in the calf of the leg, lacerating the muscles and arteries. But for his own prosenco of mind and his comrades', he stood a fair chance of bleeding to death. He put his finger on the large artery, and partially arrested the bleeding, till his companions succeeded in making rude but effective tourniquets; whioh were placed on with judgment and practical skill. Iu the meantime a telegram was sent to Holensville, acquainting the station-master of. the accident, and the train was delayed some twenty minutes till the sufferer conld be brought to Helensville on at/oll'y, by jigger, and brought down, by rail. Another telegram was despatched to Auckland, so that Dr. Girdler was enabled to go up the line -and meet the patient at Waikomiti ata* ■tion, and accompany him to Mr J. Phillips' rosidence, Mount Albert, where his 1 injuries were medically attended to: trying ordeal Mr ifonk declined to accept the relief ofj 'chloroform', but bore his fliiflc'rinftr with! iiinfliucliin^'''conrflgp;;:'Kvorylhing is ■ being done for him that medical skill can suggest, and hopes, are eutertinod' that ~ jie may Buffer no perraanenfcinjury to tho ihb, '