ACCIDENTALLY SHOT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2705, 26 February 1916, Page 6

ACCIDENTALLY SHOT

&_ 'A MAORI WAR VETERAN. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Clßbornej February 25. William F. Stephenson, aged 85, a Maori War veteran, and ono of tlio oldest residents of Poverty Bay, was accidentally shot in the abdomen to-day, and' died before reaching the Hospital. Mr. Stephenson intended to shoot a dog which bad been worrying bis sheep, and it is believed that wlien dismounts ing from his buggy the reins caught in the trigger of tlio gun, with fatal results. '

Of all tli© bugle calls which alternately clieer and depress tlie boyish spirit of a soldier, "Cookhouse is the most-welcomed and 1 'Reveille" tn© most hated. The former lias perhaps one rival —a call only too rare, but heard sometimes on a wet day: "There s 110 "parade to-day," but no ca J]„ ruals "Reveille" in unpopularity. The gen--oral feeling of one battalion on tlio subject was most accurately and forcibly expressed tho other morning. Many / oi the men lwd returned from wcekend leave and had not got to bed till after midnight. At 5.30 a.m. came he call— unmercifully loud and harshly blown by a particularly spiteful young buglor, himself just nut of bed. Bcfoie the last, note was reached an exasperated voice bellowed out over the barrack square, "Go away, Imli 5° You're disturbing the whole battalion. So many, special constables have resigned from the City of London Police reserve to join His Maiesty s Torces that the Commandant, Colonel J. Bcningfield, C.C., has issued an appea. to men over forty who are physically fit to perform the duty of a spceial constable. .