THE NITRO-GLYCERINE CARTRIDGE.
[BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.! Wellington, Friday. It is believed that the nitroglycerine cartridge found among railway coal got there accidentally, and had probably been in the slack for months. Cartridges containing nitroglycerine are not used in coal mining, but are employed in quartz-reefing. The cartridge was forwarded to the Government analyst, who ascertained by experiments that only by percussion could it be fired, consequently had the cartridge been shovelled with coal into a furnace, no explosion would have followed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 9010, 15 October 1892, Page 5
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