SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION.
[BY telegraph.— ASSOCIATION.]
Ci RiSTOHURCH, Saturday. A remarkable instance of spontaneous ignition occurred the other day in a threshing machine operating in some wheat stacks ona farm near Ainberley, revealinga hitherto unsuspected source of danger. Tho wheat operated on was very foul with smut, which it can only be inferred is under certain conditions highly inflammable, and was probably in this case the immediate cause of the accident. One of tho hands at work behind the riddle says that a sudden flash of fire overpowored him, singing his face, but was unaccompanied by any noise, savo a puff. The fcoder knew nothing of it until fie saw the straw ascending tho elevators in flames which almost instantly enveloped the straw stack. The straw and unthreshed grain were consumed, but the damage to the threshing plant was not serious.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9047, 7 May 1888, Page 5
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