A sad shooting accident occurred at Piarere, near Tirau, Waikato, last week, when a little girl, aged 10 years, was accidentally shot in the hack with a pearifle by her father. . Tho unfortunate girl, who was admitted to the Waikato Hospital, succumbed to an attkick of peritonitis. An inquest was hold 1 before Mr, Rawson, S.M. The evidence, showed that the father of the girl was out rabbit-shooting when big-gun accidentally went oft, the,change striking the givi'in the hack A veidiet of "aceidentiil death, no bUiae/»tta*li*W« to aamuusj* was returned ;
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 38, 14 August 1917, Page 6
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