Bolt in toe Square.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1637, 17 February 1886, Page 4

Bolt m toe Square.

As Mr J. Miller's horse and trap, the lat - ! ter with wheel securely loeked,\verestanding m front of the Bee-hive Store at noon •' to day, the frisky steed elected to bolt;. Mr", Miller nearly succeeding m arresting his progress, but failed, and the animal tore round the Square at top 'speed i The Commercial Hotel .corner was safely | negotiated j and notwithstanding" the efj forts of seveial persons to stop the runaway, he pursued his mad career. Turning snarp at the rear of Messrs Woolcock & Hosking's smithy, the fence was charged m gallant style, and the post giving way with a panel of fencing allowed the cart to get over too. It, however, capsized, and the horse was captured none the worse for the spurt. A step snapped off, and a dash-board bent, seemed the total amount of damage done to the trap, and, Mr Miller , having ■ adjusted the harness, hitched up his sportive eqine, mounted and {drove away. The incident caused some little excitemeLt, and a prominent figure among those who watched the bolt, was a squat . Maori — we are really not exactly sure of what sex, but a believe a' waliine, who stook back apparently greatly interested m the progress of the runaway. . It .is J hard to say what has come over the. horses during the last week or two, but a , mania for bolting without cause appears ] to have setin, and scarcely a day passes I blit news comes to hand of some" narrow ' escape occurring through' this cause. { Possibly the Wellington Philosophical Institute might sit on the question and submit the result of their deliberations to an anxious and expectant public.