Extraordinary Accident.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1717, 26 May 1886, Page 4

Extraordinary Accident.

HEA.YT LOSS TO A. GRAZIER.. The Taranaki Herald has tile following : — A mob of cattle which were being driven by Mr Pe.ircc from Pihnma to Mr Ling's btock sale at 'Waiwakwiho, were paddocked at thu Oakum Hotel 6n Tuesday n,ignt, ami ou going, to look for them m the morning it' was found that twenty, eight were missing. On search being made the mangled bodies of fourteen of them were discovered at the foot of the cliff, which forms one boundary, about two chains m length, of the fence m which. they : were placed. The cliff, with the exception of a few ledges on which there is a small growth of brushwood, is almost perpendicular, and is about 150 feet m height: The ground at the foot is composed ojf boulders. Tho sight ■where the sattle had fallen was must sickening. Horns and brains were scattered all amongst the boulders, ■which were also for a great di^ance ; around smeared and spattered with I Wood ; and tho animals were so much iiiutilated that the limbs of the nn-. fortunate beasts were also m many . enses detached from' the carcasses.'. In several cases the v^cks had broken off clean from the bodies, and were at considerable distances from the ■vjpther parts of what had ouce been ohoice fat builosks. Six of the missing bullocks were found some distance "'away, much shaken, and had apparently had their Tall broken by the brushwood. They will, however, probably have to Wi destroyed. Eight w are yet mi swin,?,' and the ho;*e' 'is entertained that those merely broke out lof the fence and. arc loose sotoewhoro f'. about the neighborhood. It is diffii\ cult to ».s>is>n a cause for this nnlo.ward occurionce, the theory that |they were driven over by dogs being by the fact that no dogs * vere heard during the night. Mr Pearce will be ;t very heavy l<iser, as iall the cattle' which were iti the mob, picked 'stock, fetted for market.