CABLE MESSAGES.

Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 314, 20 April 1878, Page 2

CABLE MESSAGES.

[Rectek’s Telegram to Press Agency, j

LONDON,

April 16

The situation is less hopeful. Tim Victorian exhibits are now ali ready for the Paris Exhibition. ST. PETERSBURGER

April 15. The anti-English tone of popular feeling is increasing - .

CONSTANTINOPLE.

April 15,

The Porte lias ordered resistance to any attempt to occupy Constantinople, and refuser, to sanction the Austrian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

[Special to the Argus ]

LONDON,

April 15

The Paris Exhibition is in a forward state, and exhibits are freely coming in, The Australian exhibits have all arrived, and are being unpacked in good order. . The Prince of Wales goes to Paris on tiis libih.

GUN ACCIDENT

Thr Wanganui Herald says: —The very dangerous and censurable practice of keeping loaded firearms in houses, was yesterday (17th instant) the cause of an exceedingly lamentable accident. A party of young men were amusing themselves in a large room of the Wangaehn Hotel by extinguishing a lighted candle by the snapping 'of percussion caps on a fowling piece. A. young man named Harconrt* staying in the hotel, was participating in the. game, and being dissatisfied with the gnu ho had in use, requested one of the sons of Mr McDonald, the proprietor of tht hotel, to fetch him a gun from his room, with which he declared lie would he more successful. The hoy at first ncsitatud to obey, but ultimately on pernuavion, was induced to go, and returned with the fowling piece. On re-entering the room he found the parly Mill engaged in snapping caps at the candle, and in adjusting, unobserved by the rest, u.e fowling piece which he held, which most unfortunately happened to be loaded, ha pulled the trigger, under the impression that the gun was only capped. Mr Harconrt, who was standing at a few yards distance, received the whob charge of sliot in the groin, and lower part of the abdomen. The constornaiicn ot Me bystanders, indeed of all iu the .hole), at. the sad accident, was terrible, but the poor suite! or was immediately carefully tended, nml a messenger was promptly despatched fur Dr Tripe, who was on the scene within two hours and a-haif after the occurrence. The young man war, all last, night in terrible pain from the wounds, wirier. Dr Tripe found to be of such a serious nature-, as to render hopes of recovery very doubtful. 5. ottng Mr Harconrt now lies, in great sui.ermg, in a very precarious eon'iition, but no is in good hands, and nothing will be neglected that may tend to assist his anxiously desired for recovery.