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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 85, 9 April 1880, Page 2

During one of the gun dismounting contests at the military sports on Saturday (says the Lyttelton Time*), one of the Christchurch men, named Recce, got his hand jammed, and on the gun being ivjoved about an inch of one of bis fingers was torn off. Despite the sickeDiDg pain that must have been experienced, Recce went on with the various duties required from him, and made no sign as to the injury lie had sustained until the victory of his party had been de-.. dared. It need scarcely be said that medical aid waa then secured as speedily as possible. x'he N.Z. Times of Wednesday says : — Strangers to a court of justice often make curious errors, it being for instance no uu-, common thing for a witness to enter the prisoner's box by mistake, but one of Ihe tr.ost curious blunders tuut baa come under our notice occurred in the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday. A respectable looking man has just been fined in a small sum for breach of a city by-law, and he gravely approached the reporters' table and proceeded to hand out the cash, prefacing the operation by the remark "Do you take money ?" The involuntary ejaculation " Does a duck swim ?" whiph escaped a li ckless reporter was immediately followed by the reflection that the man baa mistaken him for a Court clerk, and recovering bims?lf from the shock to his fceliugs caused by the unwelcome discovery, he waved his interrogator toward the clerk' of the Court, I J