PAINFUL ACCIDENT.
On the 10th pf the present month at Blackburn, JTawke's Efay, a most painful acoidenii ha^periedto « little boy, son of Mr A. V; Harrison, postmaster at that place. The little fellow w a » playing about withrwhat the parents thought an em jrty powder flask, hut whioh afterwards proved to contain a quantity of p6w_er . : ' The child, m its fun went to. ths -fire-place, and began to play there, when : suddenly the canister 'exploded. The" (poor little fellow wa& "'Sadly burnt ibout the face jmd hands,- and for forty-eight hours was ia, the' most acute/ "agony, aiid quite insensible; 1 For o Some time it was' feared '<• that the c total loss of -"sight would resutr, <but : we L are glad to learn that the child 'iB !J iib c w doing well; ' This shp'uTd e be a warning to; ''people not -to-'allbw' children to play with even what are supposed to be«mpty''powder flasks. '
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 279, 29 October 1883, Page 2
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155PAINFUL ACCIDENT. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 279, 29 October 1883, Page 2
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