Serious Gun Accident.
At about eight o'clock yesterday morning a young man named B. Willis, a son of MrA. D. Willis. M.H.R., of Wanganui, met with a painful accident in the West Waitapu Block, about eleven miles from Waituna. He was going along a bridle track to work from Mr E. Haycock's, in whose employ he was, carryiner a loaded gun. He had not gone nanny chains before the guv went off, the full charge of shot being lodged in his right foot. Mr Willis managed to get back to Mr WilBon's whare, which is opposite Mr Haycock's, the latter being absent from home at the time. Mr A. S. Wilson, a son of Mr H. Condie Wilson, at once attended to the injury, and after dressing the wound as well as he could set to work to get Mr Willis to Feilding, a distance of 27 miles. The first part of the journey, four miles, along a bridle track, through mud and slash, being accomplished on horseback. A vehicle was then procured from a settler, and they arrived in Feilding at about 4 o'clock, when Mr Willis was attended to by Dr Johnston, and afterwards sent home to Wanganui by the evening train, being accompanied by Mr W. Carthew.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 292, 16 June 1896, Page 2
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210Serious Gun Accident. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 292, 16 June 1896, Page 2
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