Jockey's Miraculous Escape.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 11910, 5 July 1906, Page 5

Jockey's Miraculous Escape.

AUCKLAND. July «. While being taken on to the track at Ellerslie this morning, the horse Chief Steward bolted with a lad' named Blake, throwing: him heavily against » post. Blake had his thigh fractured and his head cut, but had a miraculous escape from fatal injuries.

A terrible accident occurred at Whakarewarewa on Saturday. A,. native named., Kaperiere, uncle of Maggie Papakura', waa missing, and a search was made, but ths searchers were unable to find him. He left the meeting-house to go home to his whare nbout half-past tec o'clock. Next morning some human remains were noticed in a cooking pool, and since then pieces of Kaperiere's clothing have been found in the rool. There waa a severe eruption of the pool, and the natives thought it was an. earthquake. Since then there have been throe eruptions, the water being coated with an oily substance. There is no doubt that Kaperiere fell into the boiling pool. The night was very dark, and he had to pass the pool on lm way to his whare. The strange peculiarity of the cooking pool is that clothes put in seldom come to the surface, and the natives are not surprised at the whole of Kaperiere's clothing not being ejected. Deceased was 50 years of age.