SCIENTESTS IN A PANIC.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1609, 5 October 1885, Page 2

SCIENTESTS IN A PANIC.

A remarkable scene was witnessed at Pe.ubrey, Cair*r* : henslriie, i-eceno'i y. Seve al scientlf.c n?«n were maki.ig er.periusencfa with dynamite :•! ft fevn f.mong the tT e!<>!3 hUh, Trhea the iucidect occc-pd, tzhich nea»ly pnt *n end to the whole party and srch spectators also ao were p»ege.vj. The charge of dynauiite had a five mini tea 'ace attached to it, and *wb% tip-own inw> the water, ar.d tbe power of the explosive was to be jodgbd l»y the volume of water thrown np by tbe explosion. Wiiile the opevationswe** on a spoi-tsman accompanied W his dog appeai'ed on the scene, and as the charge was thromj into the lake tbe animal sp;i»ng into tbe water, and seized the explosive, which it brought asbcre. Tbe sportsm&n shouted to the dog tc dvop the substance, but the anima] ran in the clirection of its master, end the erperimentalists inade off, the dog being kept at \xy by fa*3 mMter and others with a contiuoocv* shower of stones. Li the end of ii ve minnteß ihc. c\\*.v?,* oxf\cc'ed, and t»io poor animal was blown to pieces, its master and friends narrowly escaping with tber lives.