NEWS BY MAIL

Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11125, 7 February 1930, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL

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SPEED OF DYNAMITE Measuring one oi the; most rapid chemical reactions known, tiie l>iu. eau of Aimes ntis discovered that when dynamite is 'detonated, Thie (detonation waves travel along the cartridge at speeds as high as torn mde.s a second. This excessive speed was measured at the explosives experiment station of the bureau, near Pitts, burg, Pa i, where a, study of suit, ability of various explosives for giv mi blasting operation* is being made. A photographic device auto, malic-ally draws u, time-distance curve of the path of the detonation wave and enables calculation of to--detonation speed ,ut any part of the column, of explosive. A deafening concussion is usually associated with the explosion of dynamite, hut this is true only of Ivnairivto fired in the open air, the Bureau 'explains. At the open--nent station, pressures of 10.000 to 'O,OOO pounds per square inch In v;been produced inside massive si/**. 1 bombs with only a metallic “dick” to indicate that the charge had ex. nlodcd. ELECTRO C'L I ED GIRL. KILLED hiiiuE CLOSING GARDEa uAili. LONDON, Dec. 20. Death bv misadventure was il’u verdict returned at the inquest at .Swansea oil .Hetty Gorman, aged who was electrocuted on the night of November .11 under curious cnamistanccs.

Mrs. Gorman said that her son had come in from the pictures, and when in the act of placing a loop aver the gate post received a shock. ,i.is sister, treating it as a joke, wont out to .shut the gate. Immcliatelv there was a scream, and Mrs ..ornian, rushing out, found her ying across the wire fence. A wire fence running through concrete pillars divides iho houses in Wallasey Terrace, where the girl's parents live, and the theory advanced yesterday by ufiicials of the Swansea Corporation was that a worn flexible electric were running srom a neighbour's workshop at the bottom of his garden to his house was in contact- with the wire fence, i'iie result was that the current missed up one stay and down anoi.li■r of an aerial pole, and then along the fence again to Gorman's garden gate, which was kept closed by a wire loop from the post to the fence.

The vury found that no blame was attached to the corporation electricity department.

OLD-TIME ACCIDENTS

STRANGE RAILWAY MISHAPS

Old-time railway accidents in England were very (Liferent in nature from tnoso Unit happen in these n&y.s. it would not be possible to. iay for many of the crazy accidents ;.o happen which marked tin.* early developments of the railways. In the returns for the years ISifi•3o. now at the .Ministry of Transport. the following are among the mishaps reported :• — ‘‘Trespasser run over while silling upon the rails in a stale of intoxication. “William EielrLcn, guard, sinick by ia, bridge while lie was arranging luggage on the lop of liL tram.' “Guard blown off a goods tram ■ - I til the roof of the van on which be was seated during a heavy gale uf wind, and In* had one of his haunch bones fractured. “George .Millet run over while imprudently standing on the line reading a letter.

DEATH FRO AI SPIDER BITE

f.SYD.sKY. Jim 22 A tiny wound, a little bigger than a pin’s head, on the left thumb brought about the death of .Mrs. Aland Ellen Bryant, aged -17. of Hioura street, Wahromiga, on January 12. It was the bite of a trapdoor spider. At the Coroner’s Conn Clarence James Bryant said that his mother was putting on her shoes in the bedroom when she was bitten !r. tile spider. He found it in one of her slippers and killed it.. Bryant bathed the bite in an antiseptic, but his mother died ill hospital live .tours later.

’J lie husband, James Henry Bryant, stationmaser at Wnlmunga. said his wife sulleml badly from shock, and a transfusion of blood at the hospital proved useless. The Coroner (.Mr. .May) found that ilrs. Bryant died from the spider, bite.

CHEST TORN

RIPPED BY HOOK

WHY WHY (N.5.W..) Jan. I

A motor cyclist. Jock .VlcClintock, 2-t, Tiro .Bouievarde, Moy U oy, was frightfully injured to-day at Mo; \\uy, his chest being torn in an accident and his heart exposed. lie was .ruling along Ji jack wall road, when he swt rve<l to avoid an approaching bus, and collided with a c:irt, winds was on the other sale A targe hook, swinging from Hie side of the cart, pierceU his chest, and ripped it; open, the wound being about six inches long. As MeCluitook. turned his cycle aside the ’bus also swerved, ami before the driver could stop ,:t. it crashed into a verandah post, winch was smashed. The verandah collapsed and fell on the bus which was full of passengers. WHY WORMY ? BLOW' TO PATH KR TIME, MELBOURNE, Jan. 22 “| can't remember when J. was first.' married. J am only a. woman. What- docs it matter to mo f l am married again. Years are nothing to me,” said a woman in the Carlton Court.

She was suing her husband for maintenance, and had been asked by the Bench when she had married her first and second husbands.