AN EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2384, 6 November 1880, Page 2

AN EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE.

SECOND EDITION

An occurrence of a serious and extraordinary nature, arising out of the senseless orders of the Bench, enjoining landlords to close their houses, hap° pened at the Grosvcnor Hotel, between eight and nine o’clock last evening. A well-known, commercial traveller residing at the Hotel, sought admittance by the private family entrance at the time mentioned. The door is partly constructed of coloured glass, and hearing a noise inside after he had knocked, he was peering through the glass when he received a sudden blow’ between the eyes, (he glass was broken into fragments, and the loss of his sight followed by streams of blood, told him that he was seriously injured. The door was opened, the injured gentleman was conveyed inside, and three medical men were speedily on the spot doing their host to allay his sufferings, and extract the glass from his organs of vision. The left eye was the most damaged, some of the fragments having entered the pupil, and it is doubtful whether ho will bo able to recover his sight. The right eye is badly inflamed, hut to-day he was able to sec with it. So far as we are able to learn the occurrence was due to a foolish freak on the part of a visitor, who, having taken a ‘“drop” too much, was about to leave the hotel, when observing a shadow against the glass, he made a dash at it with his list.