BULLET’S CURIOUS ANTICS.

Taihape Daily Times, 1 August 1919, Page 3

BULLET’S CU RIOUS ANTICS.

I A REMARKABLE MISHAP. > Mr. Arthur‘ H. Lucas, of the teaching stafi of the Sydney Grammar Schofll, who, during the absence of the headmaster at the war, was acting—head of the school, met with an extraordir ary accident recently, says the ‘Sydney “Sun.” He was shot, and the antics of the bullet were remarkable. Mr_ Lucas was Walking on to theMortuary Station, at Regent Street, to attend a funeral, when he heard the faint report of a firearm. Almost simultaneously he felt a slight covcussion in the head, and became some. what dazed, thoughe he recovered quickly. '

When he reached the ccllietery, an.d took off his hat, he observed thm; bullet—holcs in it. He then for the first time noticed that the lower lid of his right eye was very sore. "Mr. Lucas askd a friend to examine his eye, and when this man puved down the lid he found embedded in the corner a small bullet used in pe 1rifles. He extracted it, although the lead had not punctured the menlbra'lo_ Mr. -Lucas said that the rifle must have been aimed high, for the bullet came from above, entered the CrO.v.l of the hat, then emerged at the right side, and deflectcd again to the rim. It passed through this, struck him on the exterior of the lower eyelid, 2-.n:l glancing upwards, glided along the eyeball. '.";t« .. -' I . 7"‘-1. x.:::~: ;.s»~. . completely spent by the time it sit. . the eye, for Mr. Lucas stated that E'does not recollect even feeling it.

I An interesting experiment regarding pinus insignis is bein gundertaken by the Public Works Department at Wailkiekie. A number of one-roomed huts and 21 boarding house are being built to accommodate "the railway workers, and the bulk of 31-L_he wood used will be pinus insignis (states the Whangarei paper). Some thousands of feet have been ordered from a local mifll for the ‘purpose. ' -