WAITOTARA.

Patea Mail, 9 November 1880, Page 3

WAITOTARA.

[TIIOJI OUR CORRESPONDENT.] Monday Evening. We have been waiting a whole week for something to turn up, and it was a ginger-bccr cart belonging to Hodren, of Wanganui, that turned up. He had been at Waverley, on Friday last, and on his way back was picking up some empties at a cottage on the railway line. The horse started off ; Hodren got hold of one rein, but was oblige to let go, after getting slightly hurt. The horse continued its career after its own heart, and came down the hill to Waitotara at a rattling pace, but turning the corner by the blacksmith shop the swing sent the cart over, and after sliding several yards, grinding up a few dozen soda water bottles to fragments) horse and cart rolled off the formation down some five or six feet of a bank, and lay in a somewhat mixed condition at the bottom, with the axle bent, some iron-work and one of the the shafts smashed. The only consolation was that the accident took place within twenty yards of Mr Buckmham’s blacksmith’s shop, where the necessary repairs were effected on Saturday. Hodren seems to be specially unfortunate, having had both shafts broken the week before through the same horse bolting. On the same day carpenters commenced an addition to the railway station required for the removal of the post and telegraph office to the said railway station. Carpenters also on Friday last raised the frame of a large addition to Mr McKenzie’s residence here.