BLACKS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 456, 13 January 1871, Page 2

BLACKS.

(from our own CORRESPONDENT.) Sports and jollifications have lieen the order of the day since my last. Everybody appeared to go in with a will for enjoyment We had races and athletic sports at the Ida Burn which proved a great success—in the racing, though most ot the horses were unknown to fame, the various events were keenly contested.

A young lad named A tkin.-, in the employment of Mr. MHntosh, met with a serious accident on the 28th ult, while riding a horse in a private match ou the Blacks’ racecouiso. When a few yards from the post, the horse the lad was riding stumbled and fell, throwing him violently to the ground. Ho was picked no insensible, and remained so for forty eight hours. He is under the care of Dr. Niven, who was in attendance inline diately after the accident and is now progressing favorably. On New Year’s night, the usual gang of tin kettlers, (I was going to call them men) made night hideous with their noise. This senseless custom ought certainly to lie put down as it is becoming an intolerable nuisance. How men possessed o: common sense, can bring themselves to wander about all night beating old kerosene tins, frying pans, Ac., disturbing the rest of their quietly disposed neighbors I can’t imagine.

Mr, Stewart M'Comb met with a very serious accident last Saturday. While driving a mob of sheep, one of them got between his horse’s legs throwing both horse am I man with a dreadful smash to the ground. Mr. M'Comb laid for a long time insensible before he was discovered, when he was found, he was taken to Mr. Sin* nnmon’s hotel when he received every attention. He is now in a fair way Of recovery, though greatly shaken.