SENSATIONAL DISCOVERY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2583, 1 July 1881, Page 2

SENSATIONAL DISCOVERY.

A telegram from Pesth reports a sensational discovery in that city. At a recent auction of unclaimed property left in the hands of the Danube Navigation Company, a merchant bought two boxes containing leaden, pipes, one centimetre in thickness, rolled up in cotton. The total length of these pipes when joined together was about 1000 metres. The purchaser took a small portion of one of them, some threequarters of a metre in length, as a specimen to, Messrs Bgger’s Telegraph Works, and offered the whole of them for sale. M. Egger noticed within the pipe a piece of white string, which aroused his suspicion, and he thereupon took it into the factory yard and set fire to it. A tremendous report followed. The governor of the city was immediately informed of what had occurred, and he instituted an examination, which ultimately showed that the leaden part of the pipe was merely a thin covering concealing a string saturod with nitro glycerine or some other dangerous explosive. The two boxes were, it appears, handed over to the Danube Navigation Company at AltGradiski in 1879 to bo conveyed to Neusatz,and they remained at the latter place until November, of last year, when they were sent up to the central depot in Pesth to be disposed of as unclaimed property.