NAPIER.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 42, 14 February 1874, Page 9

NAPIER.

A VBET painful accident occurred yesterday, 27th January, about 4 p.m., to Bro. Athanasius, who has been for many years attached to this mission station. When carting a tank to Mr. Eearden's school in the Sbakespere Road, the horse bolted down the hill, and the brother in his endeavors to stop it became entangled in the reins for a considerable distance, and finally got jammed between the horse and the shaft, where both he and the horse fell. One of the wheels lodged on the brother's breast, and it required the united efforts of Mr. Eearden and the two men employed at the convent to extricate him from his perilous position. Ultimately he was conveyed in an insensible state to Father Forest's, where in a few minutes Dr. Spensor dressed his wounds, which are of the most serious nature. la fact, ho is a mass of coatusions and bruises, and it is feared that if they do not terminate fatally, it will at the very least be many weeks before he will be in a positron to resume his duties. J. A. B.