COL WARDROP MOORE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1581, 26 October 1912, Page 5

COL WARDROP MOORE.

DEATH OP A GREAT SPORTSMAN.

Tho details of the terriblo accident ..■which occurred to Colonel Wardrop Mooro in. tho red deer country round Lake Hawea, early in 1910, is recalled by Mr. Horaco Cramond, local manager for Thomas Cook and Son, who has just returned from a holiday; Mr. Cramond says he has little doubt that the effect of tho accident had to do with Colonel Mooro's untimely death. The accident, Mr. Cramond stntes,' happened in rough mountainous country, a good way from any settlement. Colonel Moore had sighted a deer, and to get a clearer view of it wont close to the edge of a cliff, and there sighted the animal, and fired. With the shock of recoil.tho Colonel lost his footing, tho edge crumbled, and he fell a considerable distance. • Ho wns very seriously hurt, one of his broken ribs penetrating the liver. In great pain ho was carried to the nearest road, to bo driven towards Pembroke. Whilst being jolted and buffeted on a sort of buck-board wagon tho horses bolted, and Colonel Moore, seriously injured and helpless, was thrown oyer a bank into a stream. He was pulled out ,and taken on by coach and rail to Dunedin, and lay there for six months in a private hospital. "AVhat that must have meant to a man like Colonel Moore, Who lived in the open air," said/Mr. Cramond, "is moro than anyone can conceive. At last ho was able to leave the hospital, but was ordered not to fish that season. Ho asked'what would happen if he did fish, and was told that in all probability he would die. 'Well, if I'm to die, I'll die among tho fish/ and lie came north, and caught over a ton of trout at Taupo. Colonel Moore's place at Blantyre (Scotland) wns called 'Greenhall," and almost every mail used to bring him a bundle of papers recording the prizes his horses and stock had taken in the big shows. He loved New Zealand, and used to come out every year, but liked to get home for the grouseshooting. By his death we lose a good client and New Zealand an enthusiastic sportsman."