CASE FOR INQUIRY
LONDON, August 19. A tin canister containing six 4oz packets of gunpowder, used for blasting purposes in collieries, was discovered a few days ago in a cargo -of Welsh, coal which was being unloaded from the collieries into the Jumna, moored in the Medway. It is supposed that the canister had fallen accidentally among the coal at the mine. While the cruiser Duke of Edinburgh was coaling at Spit head yesterday from a South Wales collier, after a smali quantity had been taken into the bunkers three mining cartridges were discovered. A careful investigation has been ordered. Both steamers were loaded at Penarth, . but the cargoes came from different collieries.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2894, 25 August 1909, Page 24
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113CASE FOR INQUIRY Otago Witness, Issue 2894, 25 August 1909, Page 24
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