AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Melbourne, May 5. ' The Tyson Sanatorium Company has been fined £.3 and £10 10s costs for a breach of the Poisons Act. The Company had sold two bottles of Tyson's ' cure for drunkenness,' which were seized by the Government Analyst, wbo deposed that ' they contained a large quantity of strychnine. A table-spoonful taken as one dose would be sufficient to kill an adult. ' Ten guineas was the charge for two bottles, while the commercial value was only two shillings. This Day. The Modern Buildiug Society have accepted a reconstruction scheme. The Government statist announces that the total imports of Australasia last year were £59,109,000 and exports ( £64,293,000.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 136, 6 May 1893, Page 2
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112AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 136, 6 May 1893, Page 2
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