A HORSE AND CART IN THE RIVER.
Mr J. Nield, butcher of Mount Wesley, met with a serious loss on Wednesday morning. He went down to Aratapu with his horse and spring cart on business and had loaded with bags of sawdust for the return journey. He left the horse and cart on the road between Messrs Vousden and Wilson’s store and the hotel while he made one or two calls. The horse was grazing quietly near the bank of the river when he got his foot in the reins and began to back towards the water. The cart went over the bank near the culvert, just about the steepest part, and the horse went backwards over the cart into the river. It was close upon high tide at the time and the animal found itself in deep water. There were no boats handy and the horse was drowned. The cart was got out not much injured. Mr Nield’s loss is aheavy one, for the horse was a young one and about the best trotter in the district ; thirty pounds "'as recently offered for him and refused. Truly, a man rises in the morning and knows not what he may have to meet an hour or two later.
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Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 183, 3 February 1893, Page 3
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