YOUNG MAN DROWNED.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 6 April 1908, Page 5

YOUNG MAN DROWNED.

WELLINGTON, April 6.

Ivan Graham, aged. 19, was found drowned in a well on his~ mother's farm at Fitzherbert. There was ten feet of water in the well.

Am. ■umfortunate accident occurred at Strathmore about 9 o'clock on Saturday morning (says the Stratford Post), when a man named Fred' Myers was burnt by some gunpowder, which he ,was .carrying, exploding. : ' Myers was- '^akkrg a 'bag* containing about 25 pounds' of gunpowder to a safe place, when, through some unaccountable cause, the powder exploded, burning his lace and arms. His mates despatched him to the Stratford Hospital. It is thought the explosion was caused by a spark from the fuse dropping on the powder bag.