ACCIDENTALLY SHOT.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 283, 21 July 1888, Page 5

ACCIDENTALLY SHOT.

Wellington, July 19. An accident occurred to-day to a young man named Thomas Morris, a member of one of the city volunteer corps. While handling his rifle at his residence, Hcnsonstreet, the weapon went off, and the bullet entered his breast, about an inch and ahalf to the left of the heart, and passed out at the back of the bladebone, going right 'through' the posterior portion of the bone. The lung is al&o injured.

Architects are not so pretentious as actors, bub they draw uniformly better houses, •

Paris, July 12. M. Floqukt challenged General Boulanger to fight a duel in consequence of the General having called him a liar in the Chamber of Deputies, The oncounter took place, ''and was characterised by great fierceness. Boulanger was severely wounded in the throat and slightly on the thigh. Floquet sustained slight wounds on the hand, foot, and breast. The bellicose Frenchman whose name is in everybody's mouth is a native of Brittany where he was born in 1837. His mother Avas a. Miss Griffiths a Welshwoman. The General has seen active service in Italy. Cochin -China and Tunis, as well as in the great Franco - German campaign. He was made Minister of War in the French Cabinet three years ago, but was subsequently overthrown, aod deprived of his command in the army. Boulanger appears to deserve the title of "tire-eater." Ife has. received four serious wounds in as many different engagements ; but has not, so far as we 'lie aware, over engaged in a duel before. His personal populaiity is great. He is a pronounced freethinker, while bis wife, who is tbo daughter of a Parisian printer, is at the other extreme of church-going devoutness. General Boulanger a short time ago challenged M. Jules Ferry because of some derogatory personal remaiks made by the latter in the Chamber, but no duel resulted. Charles Thomas Floquet was born in the Lower Pyrenees district of Fiance in 1828, aud is therefore Bo u) anger's senior by nine years. He was called to the Paris bar lv 1851, and paactised for many yeais. He was interned tit L J an for suspected complicity in the Communists rising. He was subsequently clouted President of the Municipal Council and member of the Chamber of Deputies. He has twice been Vice-Peesident of the Chamber, and was elected J 'resident under the Brisson Ministry. He was nominated for the Presidency of the Republic on Mr Grey's retiiement, but received \ery little support.