A Proposed Training Ship for New Zealand. A Man Drinks Poison.

Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 80, 1 October 1897, Page 4

A Proposed Training Ship for New Zealand.

A Man Drinks Poison.

■ o ■■ (Per Press Association.) Wellington, Sept. 30. A deputation introduced by Mr Joyce, and consisting of Messrs Hutchison, Crowther, G J, Smith, E. G. Allen, Tanner, Lewis. McKenzie (Dunedin), Miller and Mills, waited on the Premier this evening, and asked that steps be taken to provide a training ship for the colony. The Premier intimated that the annual cost of such a ship would be eight thousand pounds, and he could not see that there wonld be an adequate benefit for such expenditnre. He con sidered the money could be more advantageously spent in providing suitable institutions for dealing with different classes of neglected and orphan children.

o A man named Robert Bradley, living in Lloyd street, Newton, was taken to the Hospital yesterday suffering from the effects of poison. It is stated that he went into the shop of Mr Barraclough, chemist, Adelaide road, and bought sixpenny worth of spirits of salts, and then walking out on to the footpath, drank the poison. He fell on the footpath, and was at once lifted up and sent to the Hospital, where Dr Ewart applied the stomach pump, but Bradley is not yet out of daager. It appears that be called at the shop yesterday morning, and asked for spirits of salts, saying he wanted to cure fish bones ; but there was none in stock then, and he called in the afternoon. Bradley is about 35 years of age, and has a wife and two children. — Times.