GAS.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 93, 5 August 1895, Page 2

GAS.

EXPLOSIVE i>ND NONEXPLOSIYE. The Egmont Post has the following : While on a visit to Inglewood on Monday afternoon. Mr Knott, the Temperance limelight lectur r, with the intention of burning come of the natural gas of Ingles wood in the Town Hall the same evening, proceeded to Mr Laing’s property with a stout indiarubber hag about an inch thick, for the purpose indicated. Owing, however, to the gas escaping from*’ so many parts of the giound, Mr Knott could not collect a large supply, but secured a small quantity in the bag He had the bag pressed to the lower part of his chest, and on Mr Laing proceeding to light the tap on the bag, an explosion occurred. Mr Knott was blown about seven feet, and was not only injured in the inner part of the legs, but his eye-brows and hair were singed, and he certainly had a very narrow escape of he'ng killed. The gas-bag was blown to pieces, whereby Mr Knott is a loser to the extent of £3. Miss Mary Laing, Mr Laing, senr., and Mr Weeks, were present at the time, but, with the exception of Miss Laing receiving a slight cut on the neck with a piece of the gas-bag, they es:aped unin*jured.