TIMARU.
Tuesday. . A most miraculous escape from a violent death occurred yesterday as the 11.30 a.m. was returning from Timaru, at the crossing of the . Arrowhenua bridge. A Maori was observed a short distance ahead walking od the planking. The driver at once blew the whistle, but the Maori instead of taking to one of the abutments, or sticking to the planking, jumped onlo the sleepers, right in front of the advancing train The cow-catcher of the engine caught him and carried him along in a marvellous manner to the end of the bridge, and then tumbled him over the steep embankment. Jones, the District Station-Master, was on the train, and observed the accident, and at once gave orders to the guard'to pull up, and proceeded back to the Maori, whom he found lying on his back considerably shaken. Several natives were on the scent almost as soon as Jones, and carried their companion to the Arrowhenua pah. Jones gave instructions for a doctor to be sent for, but it is reported that when the latter arrived the Maoris would not admit him into the hut.; The Maori's name is Haeremaipaia, who is about 60 years of. age. No fatal result is expected to follow the misadventure. ...
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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3005, 2 October 1878, Page 2
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207TIMARU. Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3005, 2 October 1878, Page 2
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