THE MELBOURNE LARRIKIN

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 8, 1 May 1876, Page 2

THE MELBOURNE LARRIKIN

An act transcending in audacity anything yet done by tlie larrikin t of Collmgwood, -was committed otliet evening (says the Mellbourne c '' "Argus, .') .Just asrit was dusk, a lad of about sixteen, accompanied by another'boy, walked up and down in front of George Rlack's Nftrfolk Hotel, at tlie cornej.* of Easey and Budd-streets, Collingwood, for a fcxt minutes, with a double-barrelled gun oil his shoulder, and thgn discharged the contents of -one barrel-into the bar of tlie hotel. Black, who has smelt powder bofore, ran out and recognised the boy, but could- not catch him. It was supposed that the gun had been loaded with grave) instead of shot, and the charge appeared to have been put in loose, the gravel 01 top of the powder, without any waddiiij either bntween the powder and the gravo or on the whole charge. This was sur liiiscd-from the nature of the. report, ar< tli|';§(et that no wadding was picked up though a quantity of an;all pebbles wei' found on tire floor, and the shelves jus jßbove where Mr. Black's head had bed were identified with' marks such as pebble fired from a gun Would make. The larri kins in that part of G'cPlingwood bear nine! enmity- to Mi\; .Black . on, account of "liii having prosecuted soma of them at difl eren times "for petty oftenc.-s; and pivbably th| gun was fired more with the intimidating Mm than with tUe view| in juring liini. The police know tlie youtlij but he lias contrived to keep out of tlieii reach so far, S