NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 10329, 10 June 1895, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS

FATAL SHOOTING ACCIDENT. Wellington, June 10. A sad caso of accidental shooting happened at Waiuui-o-mata district, on Sunday morning. A young man named Herbert Palmer, 27 years of age, and a clerk in the Circulation Branch of the -General Post Office, Wellington, was out pigeon shooting with his brother and two boyb. Herbert fired and brought! down a pigeon, and rested the gun against his thigh while he putjt in a bag. -While doing this he heard a flutter- in a tree above, and snatched the gun up to havo a shot. As he caught hold of the gun it went off, and he received the charge in his left I thfgh,, the shot blowing a' hole clean through. The poor fellow bled to death in a fow minutes, being fully conscious almost to the last that tho wound was fatal. The body was brought into the Hutt. Palmer had only recently returned from San i' rancioco, where he had gone for a trip as mail agent. WOMAN BURNT TO DEATH. A woman named Louis Smith, who was received in the' hospital on Tlnirs day, suffering from burns, died there it , midnight before her depositions could be taken. Tw» men, Andrew and Joseph Kennedy, brothers, hare been arrested on a charge of being concerned

in the affair, and Joseph Hewitt is also to be charged along with them. It is ! alleged that another man was in the house with the woman, and the'three accused went there to try induce him to leave. A fight ensued, daring which a lamp was thr»nn down, with the results 9tated. OYSTER CULTURE. The iettlers in Pelorus Bound are taking Btcp3 to foster the oyster industry, arid several applications are to be sent in to the Commissioner of Customs for permissive tiosnsea for artificial oyster beds.