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[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.] a laboiTvictory. MELBOURNE, This Day.—The byelection for the Brunswick seat in the Assembly resulted in Mr Jewell (Labour) defeating a Ministerialist by a largo majority. OFF TO QUEENSLAND. BRISBANE, March 18.—A number of settlers arrived from New Zealand to-day to make enquiries from the Land Office with a view to taking up land in the Timbour Estate. A BOY BLOWN" TO PIECES. SYDNEY, March 18.—A boy named Bacon, residing at Holland’s Plains (near Port Macquarrie) was given some, detonators by another lad who found them. Bacon’s mother, ignorant of their nature, told him to throw them away. The boy threw them into the kitchen fire with the result that a terrific explosion occurred. The lad was literally blown to pieces.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 March 1910, Page 3
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