| Show QUEER SHOT some years ago sir john gorst lived in waikato Wai kato and edited the maori newspaper to te Ilak iol the paper was printed and published near tho the scene of some of the hottest fighting of the war then raging during the struggle the maoris laoris ran short of ammunition and having no ball for their 14 guns loaded them with shop weights from neighboring shopkeepers this source of supply was soon exhausted then a raid was made upon the gakio office and their guns were charged with type and stereo blocks this new ammunition tion proved very effective one of 0 the tha white invaders was wounded by a patent medicine advertisement another was injured by a church bazaar announcement no a third lost a leg through a solid leader on the tha land bill and sir john who had taken refuge with the british troops bad a narrow escape from being hit bit with one of his own poems ex |
