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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1656, 24 January 1906, Page 3

The Observer, in an article on pea rifles, states -.—Only the other day one of the suburbs of Auckland was disturbed by a pea-rifle sensation. It •was nothing more than the arrival at one of its cottages of an enterprising vouth equipped with the dangerous nuisance. For an hour or two the air of that village was lively with flying uellets. Bullets flew across gardens and into hedges with an absence of discrimination that startled the neighbourhood. The residents gathered their littlo families indoors, and lived iu a state of terror until representations were mado at the source of the nuisance, and parental, internosed to compel the miniature Dattery to cease firing. As it happened no great harm was actually done, out till a stop was put to it, there was enough lead flying promiscuously through the air to have done a good deal of damage And this experience, we are aware is but one of many of the kind. It is of course, only the most serious accidents that one hears of through the newspapers. The testimony of medi cal men is interesting as to the fre ciuency with which they are called up on to dress wounds caused by poa-rdb bullets. One doctor, for instance, m forms a contemporary that he has he ■within the last six mouths to extract ■Pour such missiles from the persons of his patients. The apathy of the public on the question is amazing. It they knew that some half-cranky person was going about the country with a loaded revolver, an outcry would be raised which would compel the authorities to take action. The happy-go-lucky youngster is only a few degrees less irresnonsible than the crank, and exoerience shows that the danger arising from him is very much more com--IE, And vet nothing is done to put STtaiU" u “' lor