Shooting accident.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume 3670, Issue XXIV, 9 March 1898, Page 2

Shooting accident.

Wellington, Tuesday. — A sad shooting accident happened at Akatarawa, near Upper Hutt this morning. Two brothers, Frederick and William Lee, were mustering cattle when a bull turned on them

Frederick, aged 18, discharged a gun and then climbed a tree.

He called to his brother to reload and while the latter was handing the weapon to his brother a branch caught the trigger and the gun went off, the charge landing in Frederick's right side. Death was almost instantaneous. The Wellington eleotion. • The white flower of a blameless life. 5 I Wellington , Tuesday.— Tho election excitement runs to fever heat. To-day a large crowd was addressed at the approach to the wharf bj supporters on either side. At the conclusion of the meeting the assistanca of the police was invoked to maintain, order,

The total number on the toll is 17,522 and it is expected that nearly 15,000 will vote. The Eeturning Officer expects to declare the result about 9 : to-morrow night. Wellington, Tuesday.— The political struggle waxes warmer as the opponents draw closer together for the final grapple. Meetings are being held all over the city, and there was a succession of stump speeches delivered by wharf demagogues from the top of an express in front of the General Post Office. To-day the Premier will address an open air mass meeting. The evening journal keeps on attacking him in its characteristic sledge-hammer style, and amongst the polite epithets applied to the right hon. gentlemen and L L.D. are 'political pirate, 1 and 'political barglar.' Replying to strictures on the state of the colony's defences, Mr Kirk pointed out at a meeting i yesterday that our armament was placed in position before the present Government came into office.

In a recent speech it was reported that Mr Duthie spoke of football on Sundays as a harmless recreation, but in his last address he declared it to be very wicked. Referring to charges of the excessive travelling expenses of the Premier to England, Mr Fisher quoted the foSowing figures applying to other Ministers: — Yogel, £3,161 ; FitzHerbert, £6,134; Featherstone and Bell, £5,540; Seddon, £1,750. In his speech at the Opera House the Premier said the present Government was entitled to wear the beautiful harbinger of spring, the pure snowdrop.