A REVOLVER ACCIDENT.
The Christchttreh Preßs of Tuesday - last says: — While cleaning a revolver at Fort Jervois yesterday, Gunner Fir- ! aui, of the Permanent Artillery, acci- j dentally shot himself in the right . shoulder. Ho was brought in the/ steam launch to Lyttelton, where Dr ; ' Upham extracted the bullet, and the^ patient was then taken by train too Christchurch, and placed in the hos-J ?iital. The lad is now progressing satis-"! actorily. <
A man named Simpkins, working on the railway line under construction to" Warburton, Victoria, was terribly mpngled by an explosion of blasßfljjpowder. One of hi* eyea i was destroyed.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10016, 20 April 1900, Page 2
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101A REVOLVER ACCIDENT. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10016, 20 April 1900, Page 2
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