PAINFUL OCCURRENCE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 301, 6 December 1862, Page 5

PAINFUL OCCURRENCE.

A private letter was received from Fiogal yesterday moraing conveyin? the painful intelligence that Mn Peter Isaac De Bomford had been fully committed for trial on the charge of shooting his brotner Mr John De Bomford. It is reported that Mr Peter de Bsmford, who at the time-of the distressing occurrence was on a visit t j hi 3 brother's estate, known as Kingston, Avoca, wished his brother to allow him to shear his sheep at that place. This was refuse!, •and an anary altercation took place, during which Mr Peter De # Bomford drew a pistol from his porket, at the same time gi/ing utterance- to some threatening language; His brother treated the matter as a trifling ebullition :of temper, and nothing further transpired a-*- «fca£*irae. The two brothers then sat down to dinner with Mr Richardson junior, and the whole affair soon seemed to have been almost entirely forgoiten. -At''the conclusion of the meal Mr Richardson went out, leaving: the two brother alone. T After some time, lie wasalarmed by the report of firearms, and on rushing into the house, he found that P« ter had fired a pistol at his brother, wounding him slighily in the chest. It was subsequently ascertained •that the barrel had been loaded with two-balls. These seem to have "struck Mr John De Bomford'on his waist belt, and to have glanced across the lower part of his breast, grazing the skin.— Examiner, Nov. 20.