A BOLT.
EXCITING INCIDENT. IN WILLIS . ' ■ . STREET. ; . ■ 1 , I Traffic, pedestrian and otherwise, waj scattered ih all directions in Willis Street * on Saturday i morning. Tho commotion. : was caused by . two startled horecs, at>j 3 taehed to ono of tho Meat Export Comi/ > pany'a big wagons having bolted. .Ths ■. . , race commenced in Upper Willis Street, and although tho wheel of the van Was . <; chained, away went the two, frightened , animals down Willis Street, colliding , i with an hotel express on route, but so far ; i doing no serious dalnago.'■ In .LamMon Quay, hbwever, tho prospects of avoiding, , , • a serious collision looked anything, but > *; bright. Right in the track of tho mad- i dened horses was a tramoar and_a horso vehicle obstructing tho otherwise Clear ... ! path. Soeing tho immediato danger of a ,>■ ! smash up, a young man,_ at the nek of ; being hurt, seized tho reins oi tlio van ; horses and succeeded in pulling, tliom up j iust in timo. Soon a crowd began to Ml- i loot, but tho young man moved quietly ■ away, and no one knew bis namo.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1646, 13 January 1913, Page 4
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180A BOLT. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1646, 13 January 1913, Page 4
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