A PAINFUL INCIDENT.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 11152, 19 December 1901, Page 6

A PAINFUL INCIDENT.

1 CORPORAL 3TRNE ACCIDENTALLY SHOT. \ {SPECIAL TO "THE PBE3S.") ' AUCKLAND, December 18. Trooper Ellis Wrigley, a member of the Seventh Contingent, writing to his brother from on November 6th, records a very painfoi incident. "The other evening," he says, "we were seated round our camp fire, -when, a member of the Canterbury Corps rode up, holding in his hand a -Mauser ride, which he had got from a captured Boer. As he came into the radius of light a, •oomrade exclaimed, 'Hallo! What .have yea jjot there," and, rising to hid feet, T?a!kedi over to the trooper on .horseback, t&king from him the rifle, ■which he bald extended in his hand. He then tamed round with the rifle pointing in the direction, sf the group round the campfire, and discharged it point-blank at the seated niea. With- a smothered cry Corporal. Byrne, of the Canterbury Corps, fell slightly forward. We rushed to his assistance, and as we raised him. he looked up and t&ea jiU back dead in our arms. The awful ssddennas of the affair for a. moment paralysed us., and it would have been hard to jattd a iwre wretched and unhappy lot of men than we were for that night." KEEPING OUT UNDESIRABLES. (special to "thk press.") WELLINGTON, December 18. At the request of the Imperial authorities the Premier of New Zealand is taking • steps to assist in preventing the immigration into South Africa of dangerous and . undesirable persons. Mr Seddon has already notified' the shipping companies. ,