An old man employed at Steppbank had a startling cxppripncc the oilier day. writes a correspondent to the Sydney Daily Telegraph. fle had hep?] out shooting rabbits with a pea ride, and carried the partridges loose in his pocket. When lie got home hp was having a smoke, when an explosion occurred, and the pipe was blown from his month, and a cartridge went through the iron roof. The. cartridge had got into hi* pipe when in his pocket, and he had not noticed it when putting the tobacco into it. The old fellow got a terrible fright, but, fortunately, escaped without injury.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 67, 9 September 1911, Page 2 (Supplement)
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103Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 67, 9 September 1911, Page 2 (Supplement)
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