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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3787, 16 April 1891, Page 3

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(United Press Association). A Narrow EscapeLiVEKOAEGILIi, 15. George Burgess, carter, came near being killed this evening on the railway crossing in Tyne street. He ■wa3 drivins home at 5 o'clock and heard the whistle of the engine as it approached the crossing, but thought it was the kpock off whistle of the factory close at hand, and as no regularfjHjm&s due he drove on. When a shunting engine came up, and as the man was known to be near sighted the driver gave a sharp whistle. This had the effect of frightening the horse, which came to a stand, and the rein breaking, Burgess lost control. The engine struck the dray by the horses haunches, and dismembered the turn out, the horse and shaft 3 being thrown on one side, and Burgess, with the broken dray, to the other. The axle was broken short off, and the spokes of the wheel forced out. The driver was a bit knocked about, but did not need surgical attention, while the horse escaped with a few cuts about the fetlocks. The railway along this street is, extremely dangerous, and several similar accidents have ocourred on it Sarins Dayllffkt BottieryDonedin, April 15. Wm. Nicholls and George Berry were committed for trial to-day for robbing a man in daylight. The man whowaa robbed had come in from the country, and was about several *' : hotels with the accused. He was warned to quit the company he was in, and re-entered "a right-of-way to dosowiien Nicholls demanded his money for safe keeping. On his declining Nicholls knocked him down and rifled his pockets, telling a woman who remonstrated with him to mind her own business. He took £1 15e from the prosecutor. Some time later Berry,not knowing that Nicholls had " gone through " the man rifled his pockets on findiog him in a closet, but there was then no money to take. The affair took place in -Igayligbt, just off one of the main streets. ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Auckland, April 15. * John Sefton, an employee at Poland's flax null, Tuakau, had his arm torn off by the machine this morning. At the inquest on Mattnew Hayes, the old man who died suddenly in the street at Caveraham, the verdict *„-was death from natural causes. Deceased came to Auckland some ago as a driver of Horse and is not known to have any friends.