Celebrating the New Year.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3133, 19 February 1889, Page 2

Celebrating the New Year.

They celebrate the passing away of ** I llie old year and enhance of the new in a much hveliei manner in America \ than they do in New ZealandJjj|\io is a slight record fiora thoNpßrk Times of January let 1889T John Nenty, a brick handler, 22 years old, living at 136 West Thnly-tkird-stieet, wan shot and almost instantly i killed early yesterday mornina Jwhilo"" ,' passing through ' behoved that the pistol ball which - caused his death was filed by some reckless peison celebialmgthe coming of tho new j ear by faring a loaded levolver.

At about 12.30 o'clook yesterday morning Patiolman Walsh of tho Twenty ninth stroet and Tenth avonuo.heaid apwtolshot and saw a a man fall to the sidowalk on tho oppositeside of tho stieet. He lan towaid the man, but boforo he cached him William Neaiy, Edwaid Shannon, and James Kennedy, whoweie standing at Tim tieth-street and Tenth- >' avenue, and who had also' been' at- , - traded by the shot, had picked him up, and William l\cary was horrified ' to find that the wounded man was hisbiolkoi. Ho waß unconscious, and • died in a few momenlß in 1113 brotW'a'* arms. ~^Hb Tho body was laken to Thirty-seventh-street police station whero it was found that tho bullet ' enteied Neaiy's back just below, tho ' light shouldoi blade and had ranged downward Death was evidently duo to cntorual hemorihage. IJioni tho duoction of the wound it was ev idont that tho pistol had bfdfired from an elevation, probably Jh a ~| window, Neury is having I ecu a quiet, inoffensive, temperate fellow without an enemy in the world. The policeman and others picsont vihon he was shot did not seo anybody running away from the, vscene, nor was there any fracas or altercation pioviouß to the flung, , Tho poh:e regard tho killihg of Neary as unintentional, but they are making every effort to discover the person who fired the shoit.

Tbo.ddvent of the new'yeaß celebrated at midnight by ..^^dis-:' ohavge of fire-arms in IhestoiPfles-:';' ■::£ pitea corporfttion ordinance.'... suo.hproceedings, which thepolipeap.:. : -;' '3 pear to have taken no 'pains t6'w %M force,. The result was that a numberrv ft of persona were shot and wouhSed v-' ; more or less seriously, \ / \:;ji'' '. ; :.vt':> Benjamin Qotthelf, 17 yearsiold,' '-■''' : .) of 451 East M standing on the side-walk at Seobiidavenue ..and w'S midnight was shot in the.;leffcleg;■'¥--. below the.knee/.receiving a,severe ',.'!;- wound.: Ho was takentohia-fidmov,';^ : for treatment. He did' not scij his^:.■"■ assailant and no arrest was'made^ : : : v h ,' Alexander Cliristie avenue, while passing: thirty- v ' fifth street; between Ninth and Twth h avenues, ao about midnight, mSmt'■'?■[: : in the' left side of the head byTal&ay •:/'.';''i : bail, arid severely wounded. He |was ; /; takon to Roosevelttreatment,; V;. ■:.■• '-.^>i;v! Micbael Lnrkiu, 12 yenrß at 518 3Vcst whilo passing, through-':Eleventh- /:/ ■■ avenue, near Fifty-fourth atreecfiat "■' 12,30 yesterday morning, was aooi- : \ ,■'' ■ v dentally shot in the kit leg by ah ~ '/? : ---A unknown person. He was taken to the Roosevelt Hospital, where'the ; ; ; ball was oxtracted; and lw was.thett; c taken to his homo." • '''A : '?W--Frederick W, Reising, 29 years bid, ■-rio while looking out of a window/of -,": his residence, 281; East Eighly.flftlj\ ; street, at'about 1 o'clook' yesterday 1 5vf; morning, was struck: in: the ;right^V ; . v skobl&er by astray bullet ahd'severcly ~'s ■$ wounded. He was attended at home by a surgeon, '. \:\, :■'[;; ■;■;■§>