FEARFUL RIFLE ACCIDENT AT WELLINGTON.
[BY telegraph.] Wellington", January 17. A fearful accident occurred at the Kaiwarra riffe range this afternoon. A man named Francis Donald, who was marking at the butts, put up the danger flag, and ran out from the marking house jusi as a shot was fired, which struck him, killing him instantaneously. No blame is attributable to any of the Volunteers. Donald is a married man, and leaves a family of young children. January 19.
At an inquest to-day on the body of Francis Donald, shot at the Kaiwarra rifle range on Saturday, the jury returned a verdict of accidental death, and added a rider to the efi'ect that some more stringent code of signals should be adopted.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1172, 19 January 1880, Page 2
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122FEARFUL RIFLE ACCIDENT AT WELLINGTON. Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1172, 19 January 1880, Page 2
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