GUNPOWDER EXPLOSION.
;<By Telegraphr-Press Association.) f'r WELLINGTON, this day. Two young men named' Joseph Stitt l*nd Jo£n Guthrie took half a,keg;of gunpoWder into a blacksmith's shop at .Berhampore yesterday rfte*™*? , '4nd spilt spine. ;They7put a match •for a lark* to the loose powder, but itr communicated -with the - tegr-and-■----the place was blown to atoms- *of-! ttinately, they were some B^ll^ from the main explosion, but both Were badly burned, and puthrie will probably lose the sight of «fae ey«.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 88, 15 April 1899, Page 5
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