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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1260, 23 April 1896, Page 23

A party of pig-shooters in tho hush near Wailotara very nearly succeeded in “ polling” a man named Buchanan the other day. Buchanan had on a sou’-woster and was climbing a hill in a stooping position, when the aliootists mistook him for a pig and fired, with tlie result that a bullet passed through his hat. The Wanganui Chronicle is responsible for this yarn. Another sad case of curtailing life through smoking: A man named Brown died in St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, recently at a comparatively early ago, death being accelerated by the use of tobacco. Had he lived two months longer he would have reached the century. But he had been an ardent smoker all his days, and at last fell a victim to the effects of the suicidal habit. One night, while ho was smoking in bed, some of the ashes fell on to the sheets, and ho was burned to death,