ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 10, 8 January 1913, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

A MAN SHOT IN THE ANKLE. (Per Press Association.) Wanganui, July 7. It was reported that just before mid night that a murder had taken plat, in Keith street, but investigatioi proved that whatever the intention; of the assailant may have been tin actual results were not of so seriou; a nature. It appears that a mar named Andrew Maher, visited a housi occupied by Violet Howard, and whib there was surprised by another visit or named James Hunn, who pulle> out a revolver and ordered Mather t clear out. Mather lost no time in do ing so. When about a chain Iron the house Hunn fired twice, a bulle going through one of Mather’s ankles The injured man made* his way t< town where he was attended to by : doctor. Hunn has been arrested.

A party of holiday campers a Whare Flat (states the Otago Daii. Times) had a sensational experience early on Saturday morning, which though unpleasant enough, migld have been much more serious. Tin two ladies of the party wore nccommo dated in a snug, well-roofed little ma nuka whare, tire two gentlemen having a hut a good ten minutes’ wall away. As the evening was somewhat chilly the ladies were provided with ; roaring lire. About half-past om o’clock one of them rose and hrushec together the dying embers to mate a fresh blaze. She awoke again at half past five to find the whare in flames. One scream aroused her sis ter, and in a second they were hot! in safety outside the hut with the scantiest of clothing and a handfu of blankets. Nothing could he dom to save any of the contents of tin whare, and the only course left tr them was to tramp bare-footed to tin men’s hut to acquaint them of tin disaster. Later the ladies, sWII hare footed, tramped three miles to the nearest available conveyance, and having obtained a useful, if not orna mental assortment of clothing, flier were driven to town. The Whare contained a small stock of new clothing, and was well equipped with camp furnishings, the most important item in which was a tent. A watch war destroyed in the ruins, but a gold chain was recovered not much the worse for its experience. The ladies took the matter very philosophically their uppermost feeling being one of thankfulness that they had been aroused just before it was too late.