ACCIDENT TO A COACH.
By Telegraph—Press Association. NMLSOW, November 5. 'lhe Blenheim coach, which left here this morning, met with a mishap, while crossing the Collins River Ford, near the Wangamoa Accommodation House. As the ooaob entered on the ford an accumulation of debriß came down with a wave, the river rising suddenly about four feet. The coaoh was carried to the edge of the ford below, which is a deep hole. The driver seeing the dangpr held his horses, and Seigt.-MajorJiKed-mond got out at the back of the ooaoh witb a line which he made fast and the other passengers (Mr Walter Hill, Mr O'Brien, Mrs Golt and an infant) got out to the bank safely. The leaders were next liberated, and they escaped, but direotly an effort was made to move the conch it was oarried over, the driver (George Newman) going with it, but he managed to get ashore lower down, much bruised. The ooaob went down the stream, and was broken to pieces, and both ehafters drowned. The passengers' luggage and mails were lost, with the exception of a hamper and parcels. The passengers have just been brought back to town.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8280, 6 November 1906, Page 5
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195ACCIDENT TO A COACH. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8280, 6 November 1906, Page 5
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