DUNEDIN. 7th May.

Evening Post, Volume XVIII, Issue 504, 8 May 1879, Page 2

DUNEDIN. 7th May.

I An accident occurred on Sunday to a young [ man, 17 years of age, named Greer. He had been for some time rabbiting on Messrs. Strode and Fraser's Earnsebega Station, and on tbe above date he and his mate were in the tent, and the lad Gear was drawing the gun towards him for the purpose of cleaning it, when from some unexplained cause it went off and the cbarge entered his left side. His companion went in to Clyde for medical assistance, and Dr. Leahy started at once ; but on arrival it was clear he woud be unable to be of any service. The doctor remained with the young man till near morning, when he expired about 9 o'clock. His mother is a widow and lives at Bannockburn. Two boy prisoners, named Goldsmith and M'Henry, underwent the second portion of their whipping of twelve lashe3 each with a birch rod in gaol this morning. The juveniles did not take it at all kindly of the operator ; they yelled so lustily before half tbe work was done that their screams of pain and fear could be heard, it is said, far beyond the outer walls of the gaol. This morning's Herald pointed out that the way Darvin and Burton, who do the Daven-, port performance, bad been tied in tbe previous three performances, was simply a farce. The Herald challenged them to allow themselves to be properly tied with a torn fool knot. It also suggested a more difficult knot, known as the jury mast knot. To-night there was a large house. Darvin and Burton were tied with torn tool knots. The torn fool, however, was not properly tied on one of them, so he secured a knife in tbe cabinet and cut away the ropes from himself and partner The committee on the stage exhibited shreds of the cut ropes, and there was a great row in the house. Burton was very much hurt in his efforts to release himself, and couM not appear afterwards. Had no.t one of the committee bungled in tying one of them not making the knot properly, the two could not have released themselves even with a knife.