BIG GUN ACCIDENT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 148, 23 June 1911, Page 4

BIG GUN ACCIDENT.

PAKHCOI^ 26 -' ~: — : — - ' Jt Further particulars in c the gun accident Park yesterday,.during th<£fin#*W' Boyal salute, go to battery was using the pßii«^H!|.; : 'ljlb. of 'Slack gunpowder,: force of this charge came 'breach on to the serving ncr Kichard Bartlet most seriously injured, he second, third and fourth finge»,"ScSi of the left hand, blown -was also burned, gunpowder. Sergeant •N^ Bombardier C. West burned about the face of and a spectator. Mr. A. England-street, Ponsonby, by splashes of g™P owd f ' *&&jir»i eyes being slightly touched.. ■Jf>£L:_#: men of the battery were , at tended to by and afterwards at Hnia boepW »J Col. PaTkes, P.M.O. >;.._■ i£:i Sβ* On inquiry at the ing, it was ascertained that tbem» progressing favourably.-' ■ , xvi ieß , P A preliminary i«l#l«g.ffi|| dent was held last ev«u*g commanding the battery;^* .*3s%Sm quiry will be set of a few days by 9*&£%** matter will then receive the wu vestigation. . ■ ■ _L 1 i,aAi6'M: All the injured men's eyM^^i, attended to, but it whether any permanent i^ s result to their sight. .• D afternoon stated that he h*& every *i their compete recoT«* ■ .