WELLINGTON NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XLII, Issue 3383, 6 March 1894, Page 5

WELLINGTON NEWS.

(by telegraph.-press association) Wellington, Last Night. The Blind River Estate, comprising 4,(100 acres, situated in Marlborough, has been purchased by the Government at £3 per acre for sub-division and, settlement. This estate adjoins the. famouyScarborough run, and is distant by roud 22 miles from Blenheim, and by railway (when ' completed) 1G miles. The country ia described as a strong loam,;carrying good native grass. The Lands Department will subdivide the property into areas tunning from 200 to 500 acres, and dispose of the land upon lease in perpetuity in the usual .way. A man walking along the Polhill Gully was accosted this.morning by a boy named John Bolton, who aßked him to take him to the police station, as he harj. done-some-thing terrible.l Inquiry showed that he had intended to celebrate his'father's-birth-day by shooting pigs, and took some cartridges and fa- revolver .from a not knowing the revolver'was loaded. On the way he met another boy named Allan Smith, and after a, short conversation, apparently about some sort of a fight. they been engaged in, he pointed the revolver at Smith. It went off and struck the poor lad in the cheek. Bolton ran away in a fright and aeked an express man to take him)t3:thes police, but the 7 ihan refused, Smith is in a dangerons condition in the Hospital.