GUNPOWDER EXPLOSION.
A DAXOBROrS EXPERIMENT. (By Telerraph.- -Own Corre9poniJcDt.) •UTIANGAJiEI, Thursday.
By an explosion of gTinpowd-er a settler iip.rnrd George Bradley, living at Helen.i Bay. woe eoirrewhaL epvere-lv btirnetl °to-<kiy. }l"c \va* in the kitchen of his rreidence wi-th a. canifter of pow<tar. One of b:e ciiildren w.&hed to ccc .Tow ]z birmt, and. to gratify her cuß.ofiitv, BTadl-ey took a pmaJl quantity out of the canister, and eprirekted i: on the fire. In domjj co he must have laid a train, as a hlirniinjj flash and exp)osi<"m of ihe car.ieter followed. Bradley'e trousers and einglf«t caxigbt fire, his ■n-Kiskere ytPTP (ring<>d iff, and his face wfls bnrnt., tnr. lackily 'h-iK cyrs escaped JnJTiTy. A doctor re summoned, and oriiered | removal to t'ne j Hoepftal. 'With the exception of pain- I ful burne, his condition -c not 6enoTia. '
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Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 127, 29 May 1914, Page 6
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138GUNPOWDER EXPLOSION. Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 127, 29 May 1914, Page 6
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