ATTEMPTED MURDER of MR. SCOTT OF PUKEKOHE, BY THE NATIVES.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume III, Issue 139, 11 September 1863, Page 3

ATTEMPTED MURDER of MR. SCOTT OF PUKEKOHE, BY THE NATIVES.

(From the Daily Southern Cross, August 31.) We have received the following particulars of an attempt to murder Mr. Scott of Pukekohe, —also described in our correspondent’s letter. Pukekohe, as most people know is about eight miles beyond Drury. On Thursday last a little after dinner, Mr. Scott, who is about 70 years of age, and his son, went out to hunt up some cattle, and between one ami two o’clock they separated. Mr. Scott, senior, was just mounting his horse, by the assistance of a log, and as he was throwing his leg over the horse's back, he saw four Maories. On seating himself in the saddle one of them tired at him, and the ball enterd the back part of the thigh on the left side. Mr. Scott immediately called out for assistance, and the Maories, it is supposed, fancying that assistance was at hand made off. Mr. Scott became insensible at first and then crawled away, (he having previously fallen from his horse), as quickly as he could in his wounded state, and took shelter in the house of a neighbour, Mr. Hawke’s, succeeded in in reaching it, and after much difficulty and intense agony he got into bed.

He remained there all that night, and on Friday morning as he had not appeared at the stockade the night before, as was expected, search was made for him, but he was not discovered until the evening of Friday, then in a most exhausted state of stupor. Mr. Hawke's house is distant about a quarter of a mile from the place where Mr. Scott was shot, and the wounded man crawled that distance through the bush. He had likewise to cross a small creek. Immediately found a messenger was sent on to Drury for assistance, ami in the evening he was taken to the church at Pukekohe. On Saturday morning he was taken on to Drury, and was brought down from there in an ambulance cart yesterday, arriving in town, at the residence of his son-in-law, Mrs. Hoskings, Simile's Point, about 5 o’clock p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Hoskings had gone up to Drury to fetch him down. Dr. Stratford and another medical gentleman are in attendance. The ball has not yet been extracted, but it is hoped that with proper treatment Mr. Scott may recover from the wound. We observe from a paper of later date that Mr. Scott has since died from his wound,