Jumping off a train.
The Natives up Haweraway are 'either unused to railway travelling, or must have a profound contempt for the speed of our trains. The following evidence was given in the New Plymouth Court recently, Thos. Walsh, guard, said that Kamaka and his wife wera travelling in the smoking carriage, when the woman's hat got blown through a window. Ramaka rushed out onto the platform to jump off after the hat, when he (witness) caught hold of him and remonstrated. Kamaka's wife then interfered, and also made a movement as if to alight, when he (witness) let go Kamaka and prevented her jumping off. As soon as Kamaka was let loose he jumped off after the hat, the train at the time travelling at the rate of IS miles per hour. Ramaka was thus left behind, hut escaped uninjured. The unfortunate native was fined 5s by the unsympathetic Court.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2861, 31 March 1888, Page 3
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151Jumping off a train. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2861, 31 March 1888, Page 3
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