PECULIAR FATALITY.
PIG-HUNTER'S DEATH. Details of a /peculiar fatality reached Napier last week. It appears that a native named Richard Grant, -went pighunting at Tiniroto, about 30 miles north of Wairoa. On killing a pig, he proceeded to clean it, in order to make his task of carrying it back lighter, and in doing so threw parts of the carcase to his dogs. During this operation the native' 6 loaded rifle was leaning against a tree, and the dogs, m fighting over the meat thrown to them, knocked the rifle down. The jar caused the cartridge to explode, and the ; bullet entered Grant's left arm. It is understood that the wound -was , not serious, but that due precautions were not taken promptly enough, the result being that complications set in and the : msn died three days after the accident
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17663, 27 December 1920, Page 4
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