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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2252, 14 October 1889, Page 2

The •• New Zealand Horald " (Auokland) m reporting a oaee of poisoning from eating tinned salmon whioh haa ooourred nt Ponsonby aays that noither by flmell nor oolor oould tho unwholesomeneaa of the sample m question be detected. The symptoms of the patient were similar to those of painter'^ colic or lead poisoning. It adds that there have been several oases m the oolony of persons suffering severe illness, indicating iho symptoms of poisoning, from partaking of Californian tinned salmon. Tho causes havo never been clearly jxiado out, whether arising from oareleas soldering setting up ohemioal action on the tin and next on tho contents, or from tbe condition of the fish when tinned.

Wo are sorry to hear from a correspondent m the Sooiety Islands that a disease has made ita appearance atoung tho ooooanut palms, and that very gravo apprehensions are entortained of the mischief it may do. As we underatand the description of the disease, it must be tho effeot of an ineeot Bupposed to have been introduoed from France. Tho lower branohos of the palm quiokly die, and the others it is feared will Boon follow. The dieuano is recent, and nothing yet understood about it. The French Government will no doubt tako m hand the requisite enquiries, but no time should be lost. No greater calamity could ooour to the natives of the South Sea Islands than a serious diminution m the ooooanut orop. The nut is to them what the potato was formerly to Ireland. Its loss would be m proportion equally calamitous, especially m the low Lagoon Islands, without water, whero the ooooanut supplies both food and drink. — " New Zealand Herald."

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