YOUNG MAN SHOT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 87, 11 April 1906, Page 5

YOUNG MAN SHOT.

... . MISTAKEN EOS A STAG.- -'.' ?',V

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" , ' - ~ ', " .;-- ' " t'b '- ' : "' "" WELTJNGTON," Tuesoay. News has heen, received by the polics. of a-,: deplorable 'shooting affair, • which took place early this morning atyPirinoa, near jVlaxtinborongh,; in the-'Waira. rapa district. On", Satnxday; r mornihg! Albert Stubbs, employed.^'the Railway Department at Cnrktehnrch, and James Evans, Messrs. : Boss- and. Glendinings warehouse at Christehuxchj ' arrived from the""South andproceeded to Martihborough to meet a young man - named "E. Hawkey the three having arrahge'd a deer-stalkihg expedition. From, the meagre'details available it appears • that they .were this morning- pursuing- ai stag & company, when the animal ; bounded into somescrub. Stubbs also went intoi'tSe' trees, 'and Hawke, who was some distance away, just saw the ' top of his head, and, thinking that ' Stubbs 5 head was part of the stag, fired, :. killing his companion. : Stubbs was a. : son of ..Mr-;.Anthony Stubbs, inspector of - the permanent way at Wanganui- Ha ' was a member of' the Sixth-Contingent; hx South Africal :':'/" ...."