ACCIDENT AT THE WHARF.
Yesterday another of those accidents for which the Queen-street Wharf is attaining an unenviable notoriety occurred. A horse and dray belonging to Mr. Butcher, was standing on the outer T when the bit in the horse’s mouth accidentally caught in the shaft-tug, of course the animal immediately began to plunge and back, making a half-turn round the T, before any one could get hold of its head, it had backed to the edge of the wharf, and fell into the water, turning a complete summersault in its full. A boat was immediately procured, but before the animal could be extricated it was drowned, and all that could be done was to hoist the cart up and tow the dead horse into the stream. These accidents vrill of course be of constant occurrence until a ledgers placed along the edge of the wharf. We ar° sorry to add that the horse was stated by Mr. Butcher to our reporter to have been worth £BO.
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New Zealander, Volume XXII, Issue 2391, 30 March 1865, Page 3
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167ACCIDENT AT THE WHARF. New Zealander, Volume XXII, Issue 2391, 30 March 1865, Page 3
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