Wednesday last in Perry Settlement, Havelock (Kings Co.), son of Robert PERRY was shooting partridge about a half a mile from his father's residence and a little way from the roadside when a neighbour who was passing along the road heard an extraordinary load report from the gun. Fearing something had happened the neighbour stopped his horse and on going a little ways into the woods found young PERRY sitting on a log with the upper part of his face fearfully mangled, the gun having burst. The boy was insensible and had to be carried to his father's wagon and driven home. Drs. Thorne and W. Vail were summoned and dressed the wounds. The cranium was broken and in one place the brain could be seen.