North and South.

Manawatu Herald, 28 February 1895, Page 2

North and South.

It is understood in Auckland Jh*t v Mr Malcolm MaephersoEj '*" appointed by the Loan and MeV^y cantile Agancy Company generaf ** manager in New Zealand in succes- -* sion to Mi- F. Battley, whx) recently resigned through failing health. : Mr Macpherson has been a, resj- , , dent of Christeburch for many years; and is favourably known 1 in. cpnay mercial circles as a man of '^ripe experience. „ Mr Dodds, inl^cWrtne^om. pany, retain? bis present p&ition ; but it is understood that he will 19

future take up a more important post than heretofore in the responsible control of the Company's New Zealand business,

A shooting affair is reported to Jblrve taken place at the Port Hills, 'tiear Chris tchurch, on Monday after-

noon, when Mr John W. Otten, who

looks after Marley'a cottage, about . four miles beyond the Convalescent Home,, was wounded by a half-caste Maori'bby named Daniel Kelly. Th&jtJoy bad been committed to Bnrnhdm from Auckland, and then licensed 6ut to a person at Lincoln. From Lincoln he made his way down to the bills. He is suspected of having broken into the cottage and stolen some articles, and this morning Otten started out to look for the boy. He says his dog started a rabbit, and that he went to try to get a shot at it when he was suddenly confronted by the Maori boy, who, at a distance of only two yards fired a shot, wounding Otten on the right side. The latter returned the ghofc, bai is unable to say whether he wounded the boy. A detachment of police has <set out for the hills. Otfcen's face was burned and blackened by the powder, and there is a graze on the top of the head. The police have found the Maori boy very .seriously injured. His left jaw i» smashed, and the charge of shot has lodged in the mouth and at the base of the brain.

He was not expected to live through the night.

A man named James Henry Pidgeon has died at Invercargill somewhat mysteriously. Deceased had been engaged in mixing a new rabbit Ippjfson , discovered by F. H. Dansels, who had warned the workmen not to stand too close after he had put in the poisonous ingredient, the nature of which is a secret. Pidgoon took ill and died yesterday. Two other workmen were also bad, but have recovered.

It is presumed that the mode of poisoning is through inhalation.