ELEVEN MEN SHOT DEAD

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 11545, 28 July 1887, Page 2

ELEVEN MEN SHOT DEAD

♦ On the 20th of Jane a Sepoy of the 26th Native Infantry having got posses sion of 40 rounds of ammunition. " ran a muck " through the lines at ] o'clock in the meaning. He first shot two Sepoys who were asleep on. the verandah. The alarm was sounded, and the regiownt turned out, but nothing could be done till daylight, when dotaohineuts were Gent) out in various directions to saaroh for him. Meanwhile the murderer pcoeeeddd to the soldiers' bazaar aud shot four shockeopers who were aieepiug out&ide thaij houses. He then wi ut ou to the plain behind the infantry iiues and shot five cartnaen. When he found that the! regiment had turned out he took refuge in a stone enolosure, whence he fired many rounds. Tha Colonel called favolunteers to rush upon him, and two Sepoys responded. When they g»4 within six yards of him he shot himsef through the heart. The eleven in«i whom he had shot were killed on tie spot, or died in a few hours. Says the N:O. Times : —The Govemmeifc is a Government of prudence and econony. So nays the Treasurer in his Ohristchut>h speech. Thia will set people woude-iog o ascertain at which stage of their adminiatn- < tiou the prudence and economy worked it ' way, like the ecum in a jeast barrel, to tin < top of the ponderous mass of extravagance / that have lisen up as a denial to the assertion. I The Canterbury Times aaya : — " Wekaru | from a reliable 3ourc-j chat \Tnjor George is i unlikely to take Kel'ion to Melbourne dur-.( ing h lw for:,LnoiDitu" HfiEt'jn." j Woli's's iiojafAr;?s.— it styuus rtion«Ojt :fl -lie o)ie Aios.ander v.'.'.bout a ri?J. * ' }