SHOT BY NATIVES.
EARLY DAYS IN GHINEMURI. WAIHI MAN’S EXPERIENCE. A startling incident associated with the early days of gold-seeking in the upper Thames district was recalled by Mr M. Pauli, district mining inspector, wfhen speaking at th© farewell to Mr W. F. Macwilliams at the Waihi Courthouse on Wednesday.
It was said Mr Pauli, in 1879, and just before the Ohinemuri goldfield was officially declared open, that Mr Macwilliams, then a mere stripling and a member of a Government survey party engaged in th© Rotokohu Valley in the neighbourhood °f Karangahake, was shot down by hostile natives. The natives opened fii' e on the party and young Macwilliams fell with three bullet wounds in his body. The natives, after an examination of the prostrate body, left him for dead, and it was only Macwilliams wonderful presence of mind in feigning death that saved his life. He was later rescued by his comrades and conveyed to the Thames hospital.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5163, 10 August 1927, Page 2
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159SHOT BY NATIVES. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5163, 10 August 1927, Page 2
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