AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
-+. (PEE PBESS ASSOCIATION). Sydney, May 24. The population of New South Wales is 1,153,000. A fearful accident occurred at Palmer Island, a township on the Clarence river, yesterday afternoon. Three youths were handling some fireworks in a store when a specimen knownas a "jumping jack," fired off and flew into an open barrel of -gunpowder, which was' standing , close athand. A terrific explosion followed, the store being shattered to pieces, while the young fellows received fearful injuries. One of them named Black has since . died, \ ' This Day. Sir George Grey has returned to Sydney. He has nothing at present to say to the request, of Her Majesty the Queen to see him, but he contemplates a trip to England to see his relative the Earl of Stanford.
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 143, 26 May 1891, Page 2
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