INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS
(PEB UNITED PBEBS ASSOCIATION). Auckland, December 18. George Benton, a boy nine years of age, accidentally shot his brother and sister yesterday at Mount EoskiU. The elder sister, cleaning down for Christmas, put an old fowling piece on the verandah. It had not been used for the past four years. George was playing about and tried to snap a match head with the hammer of the gun. It exploded, and the charge passed through the stomach of Addison Benton, aged sir years, and lodged in the arm of Agnes B,enfcon, aged two. The children were rempved to the Hospital, where the boy died about 7 o'clock last night. The fiirl is still in the Hospital,
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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 74, 19 December 1891, Page 2
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