MISADVENTURE AT PUKAKI.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 3461, 4 January 1901, Page 3

MISADVENTURE AT PUKAKI.

News reaches ii» of a bad accident ak Pukaki on night. M&-Jackntan, representative of tiienA.M.P. Society in South Canterbury... accompanied- By: a. medi-. cal gentleman, hifck. of. whoisfc Kadi bets combining i with business- for a few weeks in the.rMackenzie s Country,, ajad I who had had- a very good' time.- up> to I Saturday night, . were: detained at Simon's Pass on businesses up, { tow 10,' 3am. . Beifc gentlemen agreed. to make the best of the waning moon and make for Pukaki Hotel at all hasaadStiii ; theSa-llgjMs farowheeled vehicle, despite:- the well-known precariousness of the- journey through that part of thfcocountry*-at nights. ®k®y safely covered all'.! the, dangeasousi saads in good time,; tha moon having now gene.; down). and; a>- Hack thunderstorm hiding: the« stare;; and were nearly within uoo-ee.' of ; thair dastiandiion, rattling along-<on.a . smooth. pebbly track, when they weße.. suddenly? throrore amt of the trap, through the. neac- whaeL aoming. into violent pollfeion, with, ai Big houlder that protrudes dangerously through the surface of the road about Half a mile from the hos&. EftftUßatEJj- wfiflber of the gentlemen was seriously ' hmrt: But by the had: reeoveiwi thanselves the horse {iad disappeared! owftr the hillside, makings sad havoc, of thft cast behind him-over tltt-bjg/bouldeans,. and i«as quite lost in thefedarknessi On, Suaa&y morning the hors.e,i with fragments; of the wreck, and other of the* maahm« elsewhere, were discovered; by- a gactjr eff searchers. The doctcp^ia-still. it>. tjie: Maeksmzie Country, and : Mf- .Tackowuiiis: ill town to. tell the stojy-.*. Eyeryoae.- anoaad Pukaki expressed ,their astonishment that the- County nob long feafece thi& been placed. .oa--.- their, taifll for- manslaughter, as this: dangerous-rocfc has- again andagaiiE been ofc a& calculated to kill who- may b& watertunate enough . to risk;- his life, "by driving along thst, piece, let read ijt dax&aess. As a do not tKwcei there by night, fcjiljoccasignally, as. happened , that sight, i&jfc the.jjjils.bgfc; to. taken. »