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Otago Witness, Issue 3511, 28 June 1921, Page 22

A South Canterbury runholder had a startling experience last week, or perhaps it would be more correct to say that the members of his household start did (states the North Otago Times). Cooking operations were proceeding, when suddenly a groat explosion was heard, and tire maids who were fortunately at the time in an adjoining room, rushed in to the kitchen ti> see what had happened. They found the kitchen range blown to atones, the cause being an explosive which had been amongst tin' coal. The damage, through l in' fortunate circumstance that nobody was in the kitchen at the time of tile expln.-'oii. was confined to the destruction of ihe stove, and the smashing of some eroekery wliieh was uu the kitchen table.