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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 614, 30 December 1871, Page 2

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._ LCOIDBNT. ' A sejiious accident luis b Samuel Brooking, of ihe ftippened to Mr. Davis and Brooking, share-in of Messrs. sarance Buildings, He was brokers of Inon horseback las', evening fcturninghome hours, and on reaching oymofter business j)OL-se became restive and and bolted, bat he iuamansgeabje again obtaining control overieceeded m Ou arming oppose tho J^^mmaL drays happened to be passrtig .J . and, in endeavouring to p £ «"« ouier j them, his horse shi^ and Z£hF£> rider in violent contact with iZ?*fL „'{ ofoneoftbedrays/breakingft^^f above the ankle. Mr Broolo^ s ' »*J3 however, to regain his pos^f^' saddle, although in great a gentlemen passing came tj 7 r andhe was convoyed as speed :j __ n n<m ; ble to his own residence in ,oOutfr INewion, where he was atteafbei by Dr StockwelL and the fractured joint was set. He attributes no blame whatever to the drivers of the drays, the accident entirely arose i through the restiveness of his horse, it : not having been properly brokeu in.

This ia the waj an American editor explained a phenomenon:—" You, have seen a cow, no doubt. Well, a cow is not a phenomenon. You have seen an apple tree. Well, an apple tree is not a phenomenon. But when you see the cow go up the tree tail foremost to pick apples, it i 3 a phenomenon."

By the last English Mail we observe that the Middlesex Magistrates had refused licences for Cremorne Gardens and Highbury Barn, but granted a license for music only to the Alhambra and Holborn Music Halls.

A pianist is up at the Catskill Mountains catching trout. At last accounts he was hauling in about 200 a day. He takes a piano with him, and plays with one hand and fishes with the other. But pianists can do anything.