ATTACKED BY BLACKS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1834, 29 December 1888, Page 4

ATTACKED BY BLACKS.

Mr Edward Lockett, who is at .Kimberley goldfields, writes his father as follows:—I wrote home two weeks ago, and the day after got speared by the blacks whilst sitting down to dinner with Buckley, of the Mounted Police, and an old "Wanganui man (he used to live with Chaldecot). He was speared in the chest. I received my spear below the hip, penetrating downwards about six inches. At the time of the attack we were sitting in a bush hut. Fortunately, I had my revolver in my belt, and I drew it and shot one of the niggers in the leg, and another in the stomach. Buckley had left his revolver in his tent, about twenty yards off. To this we retired. Buckley got his revolver and shot down another black, while I snatched up my rifle and dropped another. As we were nearly surrounded by blacks, we made for cover. Buckley got so weak that he could not stand, and loss of blood was telling on me. Fortunately, a man came up and helped us along. A publican who had formerly walked the hospitals, took us under his care, and has been busy ever since in ' extracting splinters of stone—portions of tbe spear head—out of my wound, and has succeeded in getting most of it now. We are doing pretty well. The-. Mounted Police came up and followed the blacks, and gave them a good dressing down, one constable getting speared in the hand.—Exchange.