A cabman named Fox, a minute earlier, had pulled up opposite a store in Stuart Street, and, leaving his little boy on the seat, got down and started to rope the wheel of his cab.
Just then something startled the horses, and they suddenly swung round and dashed off down Cumberland Street, with the cab rocking, the reins trailing, and the small boy crouched in front of the cab holding on to the guard-irons.
Detective Ward was just then in High Street, at its intersection with Cumberland Street, and, seeing the runaways coming he waited for them.
As the terrified animals dashed past him, he sprang at the bridge of the off-side horse, and succeeded in getting a good hold, but not in stopping the horses.
Sometimes running and sometimes being dragged almost under the animals' hoofs, the detective was carried right across High Street to the Triangle, where his weight on their heads finally told on the horses and brought them to a standstill.
Luckily, Mr Ward was not very seriously injured, but his hat and suit of clothes were torn and quite ruined, and he was much bruised and battered.
The cab, with the exception of a broken shaft, was not badly damaged.
• The new lake discovered by Mr Treseder, of the Public Works Department near Mount Christina, on the Wakatipu-Te Anau track, has been named Lake Maher, after one of the men who are engaged in the work of constructing the track.
Another workman has also had his name immortalised.
In this case Fahey's Lagoon, on the top of "The Key". - ODT, 28.1.1910.
