A BULL’S ADVENTURES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3319, 24 October 1919, Page 5

A BULL’S ADVENTURES.

Considerable consternation was caused at the port by a bull, which broke away from the 'b.reak\Vatcr, where it was to be shipped (states a recent Napier Telegraph). The animal, which appeared ‘to have an ugly temper, cleared everything movable off the roads in double quick time. A gig. containing a Well-known local citizen was hurriedly abandoned, the ower seeking safety behind a convenient fence. The bull got foul of the gig and did a certain amount of injury before the horse took to its heels. The infuriated bovine then made up Sea Point Road, scattering peaceful pedestrians in all directions. An old—time farmer who saw the beast rushing at him, quietly waited until the hull was a. few feet away, and then the men from the country quietly side-stepped, and the bull kept on running. Some dainty morsels in the garden of Mr Russell Duncan attracted the bull there-, and the. inmates immediately became prisoners, and nobody ‘dared to make an attempt to reach the premises. The shippers, in the meantime, were scouring the city for all the stock agents, but of these none could be found that knew anything about mad bulls, and the search was extended to the country. A drover was sqbured, and brought to town in a car, and he had no difficulty in getting the animal back to the breakwater. It is stated that the firm of shippers concerned is to be asked to foot a pretty substantial hill of da.ma.ges_