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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 136, 9 May 1891, Page 2

To-day -we have the melancholy task of recording the accidental death of a young man, E. G. Pearce, who was killed on the Makino road, by the upsetting of a dray. It will be seen by the particulars given that the unfortunate man was, in a degree, the author of his own fate by riding in so dangerous a position. "We do not suppose for one moment that he realised the. danger ha was in, and would scarcely know until he was ushered into the presence of his Creator, that he had left a widow and three young children alone in the world. Our object is not to moralize, but to point out to those who follow the same occupation the necessity for giving up this dangerous, and in the case of married men with families, most reprehensible practice of riding on top of timber and other loads. We see it every day, and it has often been a matter of surprise to us that more accidents have not resulted from this cause.