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FA! Ai.l I its aND AIa 1DLN iS
SENSATIONAL BOLT.
A. sensationa1 bolt oeeurrod ia tlie city
about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Mr
William. MikLren, traveller for cyanide
works, was driving' towards tlio city along
Park-road, and when near tho Orderly
xooni, tlio korse stumbled and fell, pre
cipitating the driver on the roadway. Air.
Mildren was stunned for tlie nionient, and
before lie bad time to rusk to tlie horse's
kead it scrambled to it<s feet an;i made
off at fill] irallop citywards. The animal
was a six-year-old well-bred beast. "When
in front of tlie Hod House, ono of the
wheels of the vehiclc came in contact with
an electric tramway pole, the impact being
so great that tlio animal was irced from
tlie gig. Unhampered, tho hoT5e turned
into J3 iill-stroot, where a lad had a nar
row escape from being run down and in
jured. Mrs. Dunphy and her married
daughter, Mrs. Byrne, and child, were
driving along Hargreaves-cstrect in a small
pony cart, when the baiting horse turned
the corner and crasliod into them. TIid
cart was capsized, and the occupants
thrown out on the road. The horse was
then captured. The or.eupa.iito of the pouy
cart were practically unliurt, though th^y
were. greatly upset. Mr. Mildren's gig was
smashed to pieces, while the shafts of Mrs.
Ihinphy's carb were broken. Both aninuls
were uninjured.
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