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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 1010, 6 May 1871, Page 3

The Otago Daily Times, April 26, sa y S : — A. rumor is current at. Green Island to the effect that a large ship was wrecked off that portion of the .coast on the stormy night of the 18th April. On the following day a settler named Duncan M'Coll observed four large fragments, supposed to be those of a ship, tossed upon the waves within half a-mile from the shore. In order to make certain he procured a telescope, by means of which he could plainly discern the remains of a large vessel, and could distinguish the paints. When observed, these fragments were borne by the current round the Peninsula, where they were last sight of. On the Forbury side of Green Island the shores are so iron bound tbaii halfa-dozen wrecks might take place without the remains being observed. Old settlers along the coast state that at no period

within their recollection have they ob served the sea so tempestuous as on the night in question, when they describe it as havijig been truly terrific. The supposition is that the ill-fated *bip, if i such it should prove, might have struck upon the reef jutting out at the end of the islet called JGreen Island ; or che frag ? ments been might have been borne by the currents from a distance. A person has been employed to examine the shores for waifs. The Press (Canterbury) says :—An occurrence took place recently which mothers will do well to guard against, It appears that a child of Mr Munning*, of Oxford Terrace, in playing with a green covered collar box, chewed and swallowed a portion of the psper covering. Shortly afterwards the child exhibited all the symptoms of poisoning, retching frequently, and also being very drowsy. An emetic was promptly administered, and after continued retching tor some time, the child recovered. The paper has been analysed by Dr Coward, and is found to contain arsenic and copper in quantity sufficient to cause death in a child of tender years, and there is very little doubt that if an emetic had not been promptly given, fatal results would have occurred in the case referred to. As collar boxes of the kind spoken of are very common in almost every family, it is necessary that extreme caution should be used in leaving them within the reach of children.