Fatal Accident
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A serious and fatal accident happened at the small farm settlement, Pahautanui, on Sunday morning last. A youth, between 16 and 17 years of age, the eldest son of Mr James Pearce, of the Pahautanui, Small Farms, started on horseback shortly after 5 o'clock in the morning, with the intention of carrying a parcel out to Pahautanui, and, as he had not returned about 8 o'clock, the father became alarmed, and went to look for him. The horse was found without a rider in Mr Stace's paddock, and eventually the youth was found lying dead with his neck broken and his head doubled under the body, down a steep bank just in front of Mr Pearce's house. It would appear that he had just mounted the horse and was lifting the parcel off a bank by the roadside, When the horse must have shied and thrown him down the bank below the road.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 57, 31 January 1883, Page 2
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157Fatal Accident Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 57, 31 January 1883, Page 2
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