SENSATIONAL BOLT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3782, 14 January 1908, Page 2

SENSATIONAL BOLT.

A runaway created some mild:, _j excitement in Main St. afternoon. Some dogs startled a , horse attached to Mr M. Wal- • ker’s delivery cart while thedrivefc),," was delivering goods at a ctistomer’s house in Norbiton road. , ■ It set off at, a rattling pace, turned ‘ Coley and Johnson Streets, startled -' the horse in Mr Newth’s milk cart, which joined in the race, ; minus its driver, the’ milk;= laying the dust' en route. '; Into Main Street they turned, Walker’s in the lead- Near the ' Red House’ Walker’s horse,, ' - swerved towards the footpath but), had too much pace on to negotiate , Whyte Street, and in a few seconds. ) collided with a horse and trap be* longing to a celestial, calmnly wait* ing outside Dye Moon’s store. It turned the celestial’s horse and:,- v cart topsy turvy and liberated it* ' ' : self from the cart it was pulling ' and careered with dangling hat-if' ness to the Xady’s Mile'where It**)' ’ wap captured. It sustained a nasty wound on the chest which tyas.- , -' skilfully dressed by Mr Patterson ) „