Bad Shooting.
The O ago " Daily Times " says that a well known commercial tra-veller,-wbo3e speciality is long distance swimming, narrowly escaped increasing tha heavy list of casualties which have always to be reported after a holiday season. While enjoying a bath on Saturday morning in the neighbourhood of Broad Bay the temptation to swim the channel™ probably a mile across at the point in question, proved too strong fco re. siet. All went well till the centre of the channel was left behind) when
Buddenly the crack of a peagun began to be followed by an ominoug splash in the neighbourhood of the swim . mer's head. It seem 3 that a Dunedin lawyer of sporting proclivities, accompanied by another '* drummer," had been amusing themselves by shooting at a floating bottle, when the Bwimmer's head was noticed in the ohannel. Naturally concluding that the object coming towards them was a fi9h, which rose to the surfaca with the wave, the sportsmen tranrferred their attention to it, but fortunately the half-dozen shots they fired before they discovered that the object was a man, proved aa wide of the mark us their previous attempt* at the bottle had done, and hence the necessity for an inquest was avoided.
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Manawatu Herald, 12 January 1899, Page 2
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207Bad Shooting. Manawatu Herald, 12 January 1899, Page 2
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