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ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

♦ About 10.30 last night Colonel Fox and Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon were returning from the volunteer inspection at the drillahed in a hansom cab driven by a man named A. Burrows, and when just opposite the Rotherfield Hotel a dray driven by Mr James Wallace, o£ Tai Tapn, came out of the City Stable 3. The two vehicles came into collision, with the result that the near shaft of the dray entered the breast of the cab horse, causing almost immediate death. The cabman jumped from his seat and got, to the horse's head, while Colonel Fox seized the dray horse, but the injured animal expired before he could be got out of the cab. The dray was unprovided with lights, and so far aB could be ascertained the affair was the result of pure accident. The horse was valued by his owner (Mr Chinnery} at je2o. t .

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Star (Christchurch), Issue 4773, 13 October 1893, Page 1

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ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Star (Christchurch), Issue 4773, 13 October 1893, Page 1

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Star (Christchurch), Issue 4773, 13 October 1893, Page 1