SERIOUS GUN ACCIDENT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2922, 12 June 1888, Page 2

SERIOUS GUN ACCIDENT.

About 3 o'clock on Monday morning a messenger arrived at the residence of Dr Hosking and reported that a serious gunshot accident had happened to a man at Brancepeth and lie was ill urgent need of surgical skill. The Dr was soon ready, and accompanied the messenger to thosceneof theaccident a distance ofnearly thirty miles. There Dr Hosking found the injured man surrounded by his comrades who were doing all they could to make him comfortable until the arrival of skilled aid. Upon examining the patient the doctor found him to be suffering from the effects of a bullet wound, both thighs being injured and the bone appearing to be shattered. The wounds were dressed and the leg bound in splints, preparatory to conveying him to the Masterton Hospital. From what we have gathered we learn that the young man, whose name is Abraham Fielding, went out on Sunday, with his gun, pig hunting, and in crossing some very broken country on his return he fell over some boulders and his gun. went off, the charge lodging in his thighs. He was unablo to move and lay for hours in terrible agony. • His mates, finding he had not returned, organised a torchlight party and went in search, finding him after much difficulty in the place where lie had fallen. Fielding was brought to the Mastarton Hospital, and admitted at half past eight last night after a painful journey by brake, that he had to be carried three miles through bush by his mates on a stretcher, He is doing as well as can be expected, and is quite cheerful.