AN ACCIDENT WITH POWDER.
[by telegraph.—ovrw correspondent.] Thames, Thursday. A youth, 18 years of age, named George Weston, brother of the mining reporter of the Thames Advertiser, whilst pouring powder from a flask near a lighted candle, this evening, the powder by some means ignited, bursting the flask, and blowing some of the tin into the fleshy part of the thumb, nearly severing it from the hand, besides inflicting other severe injuries to his hand. He has been conveyed to the hospital. '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6421, 16 June 1882, Page 5
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82AN ACCIDENT WITH POWDER. New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6421, 16 June 1882, Page 5
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