SAD FATAL ACCIDENT.
Dunedin, This day.
A very sad and fatal accident occurrcdat Abbotsford, five or six miles from Dunedin, on Saturday. Four lads left town in tho morning on. a rabbit-shooting excursion. Amongst them was William Street, aged 15, son of the Mayor elect. In the afternoon a largo number of gentlemen visited by invitation the Saddle Hill Company's quartz mine, where new machinery was being started. This is in tho neighborhood of Abbotsford. Amongst the gentlemen was Mr Street, who had arranged to meet his son at the mine. The lads all arrived at the mine in due course, and whilst in one of the buildings one of them accidentally discharged his gun, shooting young Street in the head, and killing him almost instantaneously. Mr Street was informed of the occurrence, and a very painful scene ensued. The accident threw a gloom over the festivities at the mine, and has been the subject of much sympathising comment in the city. ___________
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3868, 10 December 1883, Page 3
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