CAMBRIDGE.
June 20. A serious accident took place this morning, about 7 a.m. Mr Doherby, not Wright as was ab first understood, a tefctier iu this district;, was crossiug the Karapera (or small) Biidge, when tho steamer let fly one of its unearthly screeches as it was ioaving the wharf. A splash of- a three-horse waggon and driver was next heard iu the creek below. Wiih difficulty, horses aud diiv.r got to terra firma, but the waggon is left to the tender mercies of the Btreani till Sergeant Chitty and a body of A.C. men can rescue it. What a pity bhe driver was not a County Council man, or a Town Board man, an R.M., or an lnspeotor or Sub-Inspector of the A.C., because, in either case, the dangerous state of that Bridge would soon be remedied. As it is only a sebbler, ib donb much matter. I have just heard that a very valuable mare is so injured that there is little hope of her. This is the very bridge Councillor Clark was so excited about, thab when it could nob. be decided what power or authority ib did belong to, he proposed bhab bhe County repair it, and . charge the Cambridge Town Subsidy with the expense. How like Josh Billings and his wife's relations.— A Cobrespondbht . [The above oama to hand too late for our last issue.— ifd W.T.]
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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 783, 23 June 1877, Page 2
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