SHOOTING ACCIDENT.
Charles Lambert, nine years old, son of Mrs Lambert, who has charge of the Paremata Post Office and Telephone Bureau, yesterday received in the lower part of the back and both thighs the full ■charge of a cartridge, loaded with No. 3 shot, discharged from a single-barrel fowling piece. A party of men and boys -were rabbit-shooting on some land opposite Paremata. The boys were not. armed, and were repeatedly cautioned to keep behind the guns. As the party made their way along the beach a rabbit started up, and was shot by one of the men. Young Lambert ran to pick it up ; just before he reached it another shot rang out and the lad fell, having been .accidentally shot. The lad was attended to by the Porirua Asylum doctor, and subsequently sent to the Wellington Hospital.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 8037, 9 January 1905, Page 5
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