SHOCKING ACCIDENT.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 103, 23 May 1885, Page 6

SHOCKING ACCIDENT.

Information reached town on May 14 of a shocking fatal accident that had occurred at Tamaki on the day previous, the victim being a boy aged 12 years named Leigh KiBsling, a son of Mr Theophilua Kissling, of Parnell. The lad had been on a visit to his maternal grandfather, Mr Innes Taylor, of East Tamaki, and yesterday morning, accompanied by his uncle—Master Walter Taylor, aged 15 years of age— he went out to shoot pheasants and moor fowl. Master Taylor was carrying the gun, and from some unexplained caupe it exploded, and the charge lodged in the back of young Kissling's head, killing him instantaneously. • Young Taylor at once ran to his father's house and gave the alarm, and the sad intelligence was subsequently communicated to Mr Theo. Kissling. The news -could not be broken to Mrs Kisslmg, who was hourly expecting confinement. An inquest was to be held at Mr Inn es Taylors residence, East Tamaki, this afternoon.

I road in an American paper that the earnings at the great New "York State Prison for November left a balance for the month of £1,200 over all expenses, "Why should not our prisons too be made to pay, and the profits paid over to the local hospitals ? That eurely would stop any complaint as to bringing convict labour into unfair competition with other labour, —•« Vanity Fair."