HBH 1890 August 11 SNELLING-GILMOUR-McKENZIE An extraordinary accident happened to a cabman and his fare on Saturday night. The cabman was an elderly man named Alexander SNELLING and the fare was a WAIMARAMA shepherd named Mc KENZIE. Mc KENZIE was desirous of catching the train at 9.30 o'clock, and accordingly started in SNELLING'S cab for the railway station. A few minutes later SNELLING was found unconscious on the road near the corner of Munro and Stations streets. He was taken to Dr de LISLE's surgery, but the doctor being out the unconscious man was taken to Dr CARO'S. He proved to be badly injured, his wound including a cut on the head which had laid bare the skull, and some severe contusions on the face and Dr CARO ordered his immediate removal to hospital and with Constable FELTON accompanying him thither. SNELLING became partly conscious today but has no recollection of the accident, and the only suggestion he can make is that he must have had a fit and fallen off his cab. While all that had been related was happening to SNELLING on Saturday night, his horses took the cab on to the railway station, thence into Carlyle Street, round the Hyderabad road, through the Spit, and safely threaded night traffic of the Shakespeare road, until they slackened down to breast the hill. Mr GILMOUR, of PETANE seeing them pass driverless, got on the box and drove to the company's stables, where he left the vehicle and horses to be found by their owner. On opening the cab at the stables, the gentleman who was in a hurry to get to the station was found sleeping peacefully within, blissfully unconscious of all mundane affairs.