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Hokitika Guardian, 3 October 1925, Page 4

fiO.OOi) TOMS BLAST. LONDON. A us- C. A charge of 8 tens of i.lnsting fmvder, tiroil by olec-tl'icity. dislodged 80.003 tons of granite in a quarry at Bonawo. iK-ar (Hum. Argyllshire. yesterday. A lmv rmidile was heard after the firms of the charge, and alinest immediately a great fissure appeared in rho rpiarry fa e. Then. with a deafening mar. the Bn.oiM) tons fell to the floor of the quarry. Houses miles distant from the scene were shaken, hut no damn.ee was done to property. On two previous occasion- bigger Masts have taken plaee at this quarry, "here, in a month or two. IA tons of powder "ill he Vised for another huge dislodgmonl. GUIDE'S VIGIL WITH COLDSK. .IUN'GI-'RAr.jOCIL A up:. -1. A pal ly has left here in seals h tortile I,sidy of a Conn.-m tourist named Schuler, whose body was lost ill an avalanche on the .1 uiiefran last night. He made the ascent with a guide, and was suddenly taken ill when coming down. Alter the guide had carried him to the Dot t a I-Sal tel he died. The .-uide made a hole in (he snow 1 > pas-: the night with the enrp.se. but at midnight the hole was civ-ied with an avalanche *.f smew. With great dithenliv the guide extricated himself. A PIC FROM THK SKV. LONDON, duly 13. A Swiss newspaper gives tin account of the adventure of an English tourist wiio, while pasing through Ttimiim Conte, near Ragaz. suddenly saw two eagles which swooped down as though to attack him. Arm'll only with an uiiv-rella. Die tourist prepared i.i defend himself, hut the eagles tlew off. letting drop at h:s feet- a live pitr a few weeks old. j The Englishman's return to Ragaz i with his protesting but uninjured charge under his arm caused great : mirth. I