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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 126, 6 September 1910, Page 8

A rather extraordinary affair is reported by the police as having occurred at Seacliff last week, says the 'Otago Daily Times.' A youth thirteen years of age, belonging to one of the suburbs of Dunedin, went to spend a holiday with his grandmother in the Seacliff district. He wandered away from the house one day and met another boy older than himself and went home with him. The grandmother having missed her charge, and becoming anxious, proceeded to the house of the older lad'a parents, and there found her grandson, Deeming it prudent that he should not go away by himself again, she took possession of his boots. The feoy, however, got away from the house, without his boots, and nothing more was heard of him until 11.30 that night. He then made his presence felt by' bombarding with stones the house where the second lad resided. The inmates of the house naturally became annoj'ed at this, and the lad with whom he had first taken up went outside and found that it was his friend who wa-s creating the disturbance. He remonstrated with liim, and then invited him to come inside for the night. To this invitation he received no rep'y, and returned to the house an*i informed his mother of the fact. The mother foolishly told her son to get a gun and fire a shot with a v ,»w to frightening away the intruder. The boy took the gun out, as directed, and fired a shot, aiming in a direction, he states, two yards to the right of the other lad. Shortly after the shot had been fired it was found that the boy outside had been wounded, two p n llets having entered one of his legs. He was taken inside and attended to for the night, and on the following day was sent to the hospital. It is likely that more may be heard of the gun-firing part of the episode. THE MELBOURNE—

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