GELIGNITE EXPLOSION.
A NARROW ESCAPE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, East Night. A quantity of gelignite stored in a building at tin- rear of Brown's store, U'rauera, 'exploded with terrilie force during the early hours of yesterday morning, tearing a largo hole in tho ground over which it lav. Fortunately none was injured, although Mr. William dale, who was sleeping only a short distance away, had a narrow 'escape and received a had shock. It is supposed that some phosphorous for rahbit poison lying close to the gelignite ignited the latter.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19081218.2.15
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 303, 18 December 1908, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
90GELIGNITE EXPLOSION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 303, 18 December 1908, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in