AN EXPLOSION OF CHEMICALS.
United Press Association — By Electric Telegraph — Copyright. (Received June 26, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, June 25. An explosion in a chemical storehouse, at Manchester, completely wrecked an adjoining bakehouse and printing works, and set fire to "several houses. The concussion caused by the explosion smashed every window for hundreds of yards around.
[Per Pbess Association.] AUCKLAND, June 26. Aaron Gully, sixteen years of age, employed at the sugar works at Chelsea, while washing his hands from a springboard at a bathing-shed, fell into the water. His companions tried to rescue him unsuccessfully, and when the body was recovered by a number of workmen, life was extihctA
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9272, 26 June 1908, Page 3
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