FATAL ACCIDENT AT MANUKA CHEEK.

Evening Star, Issue 3338, 31 October 1873, Page 3

FATAL ACCIDENT AT MANUKA CHEEK.

Wc regret to learn that a accident occurred to a waggon driver last evening, about eight o’clock, at the third bridge from Manuka Creek, which resulted in the death of the driver and one of the horses. In crossing one of those most awkwardly angled bridges, it would appear that the wheel of tire waggon had come in contact with the side entrance wall, in all probability owing to the great difficulty in turning a long team, by which the wall wm thrown down, and the waggon precipitated into the deep rocky creek below. Ihe six leading horses appear to have broken their chains, but the shatters and driver were carried over with the waggon. One of the shatters escaped death, but was severely cut and bruised ; the other was killed, and the poor driver was found tinder the load in the middle of the stream--of course also dead. Several accidents have taken place at the same spot, and the attention of the Government has been repeatedly called to the dangerous character of that portion of toe road. The driver’s name was William Rutherford, and it is reported he leaves a wife and six children to mourn his untimely end. The waggon and team belonged to Mr Robert Gawn, carrier, Dunedin. — Bruce Herald.