BLOWN UP WITH GUNPOWDER.
Farmer. Holzbattkk, Funfkirchen, Hungary, drore homo across the frontier the •other day wilii a load of hay, in which a quantity of gunpowder had been skilfully, concealed with the idea of evading > ■ payment of duty. All went well, and the.(Jus-, turns.olticers did not even stop Holzbauei's waggon. 'Well pleased with his day's work, the fanner refreshed at several wayside houses, witu the result that y.'hen Hearing his homestead he was, decided!v. the worse. lor drink Lighting: his pipe" .he <- cksslv tossed the ma|ch .into .th« hay. which v. as set alight, and exploded the gunpowder. Farmer ii.nd/waggon were blown to ..its, out Ilia horses escaped injury. '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13193, 2 June 1906, Page 2 (Supplement)
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