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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 309, 8 June 1889, Page 3

A Pwllypsnt quarryman, named William Price, took home instead of his tes can one simitar to his own, which.however, was half fall of blaeting pdtfder. Upon his arrival at Bedwaa he placed it on the fire warm, when a violent explosion took plans. The windows of the cottage were* blown out. and the furniture wicked, the poor man and his wife and family being embedded in the debris. Much damage was also done to the ad joining cottage.

The Daily Alta California thus alludes to the O’Connor-Gaqdaur match :—“ As a betting event the race is a dismal failure, It has never been regarded in local sporting circles so a square thing, and is usually Spoken of as a hippodrome. Nobody ever considered Gaudaqr any match for O'Connor, and hs doesn't think so himself, or he would have accepted a challenge made by him allowing him ten seconds in a four mils race, Now he meets O'Connor on even terms for an alleged pures of 2000 dollars, The affair is regarded as a plan to get money to help O'Connor out on his Australian tour, ?t ir safe to say that there never has Veen’ such a papable • fake' in this city as the'O'OonnorGaudaur r&ee at Alameda ifiole, The' A-ltg had repeatedly warned the public that the whole affair was a fixed thing, but the San Francisco public likes ts be gulled, and this fact, together with the beauty of the day, induced some 3000 people to witness the coldblooded swindle,”