A POHOKURA INCIDENT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2, 3 September 1913, Page 6

A POHOKURA INCIDENT.

PROMISCUOUS FIRING. Perhaps every single person has a different idea of what constitutes perfect enjoyment; but it takes a backblocker to supply the very latest in the matter of a “rorty” time. A gentleman set out to enjoy himself at Pohokitra on Monday evening. Havinggot himself into a “highly delighted” state, with the help of “fermented and spirituous liquors” he sallied forth on the main road about half-past ten in company with a \V inchester repeating rifle and a bandolier containing a large! number of cartridges. Then he proceeded to “enjoy” himself according to his own idea, which was to stand on the road and fire off his cartridges in the direction of the four winds of heaven. Nobody could object to a person rationally enjoying himself by peppering the four winds of heaven with a rifle, but,' unfortunately, between said person and said four winds there is a great deal of fixed and portable and animate and inanimate property which does not improve by being riddled with rifle bullets. A horse unwisely placed himself between! the gentleman at Pohoknra and tliej particular wind which ho was peppering, and took deliver} 7 of two bullets in the chest. . The enjoyment-seeker was,--persuaded to suspend operations, and. a quiet word was passed to Constable Scanned at Whangamomona, who wont to Pohoknra yesterday morning and made him the guest of His Majesty. The rifle and ammunition wer» also impounded. Arising out of the affair, Charles Holt appeared at the Court this morning before Mr C. D. Sole, J.P., charged with’having been drunk while in possession of a firearm. Sergeant MeNeely asked for a remand until Friday, explaining that Holt would probably be also charged with injuring the horse. The remand was granted.