A TREMENDOUS LEAP.
Bather a sensational accident happened here on Sunday afternoon (says the “ Cromwell Argus ”), and the wonder is that more disastrous results have not to be recorded. Our townsman Mr MaoKellar was driving a young mare in a light buggy along Melmore street. At the foot of Sligo street something startled the animal, and she swerved off the road. But at this point the bank of the Kawarau River —running some 60ft or 70ft below—is unprotected, and the driver was powerless to restrain the horse, which, buggy and all, bounded over the precipice. Happily, Mr MaoKellar had sufficient presence of mind to spring from the conveyance a few yards from the edge, otherwise it is difficult to see how he could have escaped with life. The strangest part of the affair is that the horse was re • covered with little or no injury, notwithstanding his terrific leap. The trap, of course, was utterly demolished. Steps should at once be taken to fence off this ugly and very dangerous gap.
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2102, 18 November 1880, Page 4
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