DR CARVER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1351, 12 April 1883, Page 3

DR CARVER.

The well-known rifle and' pigeon Bhot, Dr ; W; ; F. : Carver,' has cbmmuhK ■■ •' cated to the Ne^;York' Presk tlio foK lowing Report','.of' his Europe':— '.«My sliooting caused' such a sensation ,in:England,.that within a few daysl received a command 'to' shoot before the Prince., of Wales at Sandringham,,.;There I: shot..before the Princn:.and Princess and' "''their family and a large number of.guests, and th'eyiwere. ;so:we!l pleased) that 1hadto repeat tho performance,. The Prince is passionately fond of shooting', and took the greatest interest iii v 'all I did, keeping tho score Himself. He even wagered Viscovrat Mandoville that I would break 100 glass halia in succession,: and I won it for him.' Talk about the f tiffness of royalty I I never was so taken back in my life. The youngs,princes had to: borrow rifles, ammunition,' and my horses, arid they went taring all over the beautiful lawn, 'bangingaway at everything. ~lt was morij like a circus than anything else. Tho'Prince of Wales got' a rifle' and ■"■ " '7OO rounds of ammunition, and when ' " he had to go up to London once Prince George borrowed the rifle, and next 1 timelhis fathpr wanted to practise he • '■ " had to send to London for more cart- • ' ridges. I believe Idiot beforo all the Boy^'family,of except the Que'en,'.At'Aldorshot 1 had a grand reception, and it was a sight to see the ■ masses' of soldiers, about 30,000, turn out to the exhibition. After that I went to Germany, and shot before the *. Emperor. and .Crown Prince and Princess and a vast crowd of titled people and soldiers. That was at Pots? dami 1 was invited to a chamois hunt. 'Count Wilezek was.our host, and wo went to.his estate in the mountains, ' He treated us royally, and we stayed there for over two weeks. I made was the best I ever did. I was sittfng one day at my station when I saw the head of a chamois appearing in a crevice.or slip between two rocky pinnacles about 200 yards across' a ravine. It was not a very large mark, ' but I fired and struck him fair, and as he jumped I was startled by a sound close close to me. I turned, and there was a royal stag just starting on the run. I fired two shots at him, hit him with both, and killed him, and he and the chamois rolled down the opposite sides of tho ravine to within 10 feet of one another, I killed altogether 16 chamois and two stags, and was the only one to kill a stag. I next came back to England and made a regular business of uxhibi- ' lion glass-ball shooting, and privately practised pigeon-shooting, as that was what I could make matches at.. This I kept up for a year. Last summer I went back to Austria on a little pleasure trip, and when on ray way back I stopped at Dresden by. requoßt, and' gave an exhibition before the King.of Saxony. That was on August 22nd, 1882, and is the last exhibition I .have given." In recognition of : Dr. Carver's wonderful performance the .'.Prince of Wales signified, through Sir D. Probyn, the pleasure with which he lad witnessed his skill, and sent him a gold horse-shoe scarf pin studded with diamonds, and havingin the centre the Prince of Wales' feathers, with, minute colored -precious stones in the band of the .coronet,' From the Emperor of Gerrnany'he'received a diamond' ringi with 13 stones set round a large centre stone, and from the Crown Prince and Prince and Princess a gold scarf pin with : the initials " P. V." crossed on the top and studded with gems.