A MAD GALLOP.
—4 : " .'■''■ -TRAMWAY POLE SNAPPED OFF. A runaway horse, attached to a baker's cart, created some excitement in Lambtoh Quay and adjoining streets shortly, after four o'clock on 1 Saturday afternoon. The' vehicle .was,in. charge of its owner, Mr. Her-; bert Stanbridge. As he was driv-. ing out of Karori Crescent, his hat. blew, off, and while he was recovering it a cover was blown from the cart about . the horse's head. The animal imme- '. diately bolted, and turned down Sydney Street .at speed;' j A cab-driver named W. H. Read vainly tried to stop;, its career, and the runaway gained Lambton Quay. : Here: it had an unchecked career for a time, but was brought abruptly to .a stop W'hen the; cart in its. wake came into •violent contact with the. tramway standard pole in the,middle of the Quay, opposite the. end of Brandon Street. So severe wai" the impact that,the pole was'broken off, about two feet from the ground. The r cart. was badly knocked., about. . Both'; shafts were broken off, the top rim-board was smashed, and it, sustained other The horse'was no* ' oriou'sly injured. ~.. :.',■',, .-.,'.■
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 901, 22 August 1910, Page 8
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188A MAD GALLOP. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 901, 22 August 1910, Page 8
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