STUCK UP BY A COW.
An incident ■ similar to one which oc cured on the Northern line-a few days ago is narrated by the Wanganui Herald. | While the train was travelling along about three miles the other side of Halcombe on Saturday, a cow. got on the line. The speed was at once slackened and the whistle blown, but the cow started off in front of the train along the line, and could' not be induced to quit it. The chase lasted for about a mile, when a bridge was which the cow endeavoured to cross, but slipped between the sleepers, and! there stuck. There was nothing for it but the passengers getting but, and' helping to remove the .cow from her uncomfortable position. • They all worked with a will, one individual, however, being so energetic at the. tail, that it at last gave way, and he went head over heels into the creek below. The cow at last-slipped ' throngh the bridge, add was last seen going down the stream, but evidently seriously' hurt. Had the engine caught the cow in the position it was in, nothing could have prevented a seripus accidekt.V V :
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Kumara Times, Issue 834, 3 June 1879, Page 2
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