CHRISTCHURCH.
Wednesday. The Hurunui coach met with an accident this evening. The horses bolted, oind made for a precipice. Sir Cracroft Wilson and H. P. Lance sprang off and escaped unhurt, and the driver also escaped, but four passengers, three of them males, did not. One horse got free, but the wheeler with the coach went over a fourteen foot bank, completely tumbling over. The coach was a wreck. One female was injured* seriously, and the others were more or less injured. A fire at Amberley destroyed grain and farming implements belonging to Dalziell, a settler. Insured for £200 in the North British. •■ ■ ■:■ -; ■* i:- :.,>'
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3159, 3 April 1879, Page 1
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