In the early days, large mobs of cattle were driven down country on the way to the market and, on one such occasion, when a mob was passing through Lumsden an excited beast charged Bertha Tucker, the young daughter of the Royal Mail proprietor at the time, as she ran across the open space between the railway and the hotel.  Dick Dobson, an ex-Queensland cowboy, was oiling his engine and refilling the water tanks, noticed the fleeing girl and caught the charging steer by the horns, and flipped it on its back; no doubt saving her life.