Serious Accident.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 63, 13 August 1885, Page 3

Serious Accident.

While returning through the Manawatu Gorge at about 6.30 last evening, Mr R. Partridge (carter) was thrown over the side, and rolling over some 40 or 50ft. lay stunned and senseless at the foot of the decline for the space of a couple of hours before assistance reached him. Some wild pigs roving about the hill overtopping the gorge road sent some debris down the hill, some of which struck the horse on the blinker, and before Partridge could do anything the animal bounded over the side breaking the shafts of the dray and rushing down the incline. A dog belonging to the carter stood and barked for a considerable time at the top of the hill and eventually succeeded in drawing the attention of some surveyors to the spot, with whose assistance the injured, man was taken on to Woodville. The Napier coach conveyed him back to Palmerston, arriving this afternoon, and Dr Macintire was at once sent for to attend to his injuries. No bones are expected to have been broken, and excepting a severe shaking to the system and a serious bruising, the unfortunate man. has escaped from what might easily have resulted in a fatal accident.