MOTORIST-SHOOTING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12401, 24 October 1903, Page 2 (Supplement)

MOTORIST-SHOOTING.

SCOTTISH FARMER'S DRASTIC CURE

FOR SPEED. Sir Ralph Paynk-Gallwey, who blossomed forth a month or two ago as the apostle of "motorist ■shooting." has found his first disciple in East Lothian.

For some few weeks past a leading farmer there has had for a neighbour a well-known Londoner, who is a very keen motorist. Almost daily the two would meet, the farmer driving his horses and the motorist his car.

Unfortunately the motorist was a lover of speed, and the fanner found that his horses, unused to rushing motor-cars, became frightrued. Several times he held up his hand as a warning to the motorist, who, however, took no heed.

So at last. the. farmer, incensed a£ his neighbour's disregard of the conventions of the road, determined to have his revenge. He first formally warned the motorist" and then drove out in his dogcart with a loaded gun at his side. He had gone a mils or two when in the distance he espied the motor-car rushing towards him. The farmer held up his baud, but the car's speed did not slacken.

Drawing to the roadside the incensed fanner lifted his gun, and as the car passed fired at the wheels.

His shot struck one of the tyres, and with a huge bang it burst, the car swerved into the hedge, and the next minute the motorist was sitting among the barley on the other .side vowing vengeance on the farmer. He is now endeavouring to iudu'* the police to take the- matter up.