III! There is a destiny which slmpe»_our whiskers ,trini them as we* will (observes the “Jfana-watu (daily Times”). Take the man from King Country way who was recently charged with attempting to commit suicide, and was sentenced till the rising of the court. His intention to .send himself “West” was defeated in a most peculiar way. He had made a drink containing strychnine, lint in swallowing it his heavy moustache, acting as a strainer, retained the undissolved crystals, with result tlirit he imbibed nothing o harmful than a. little water, police subsequently In ashed from mrui’vs whiskers a sufficiency of strychnine crystals to “out a whole, countryside.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 November 1922, Page 3
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107Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 Hokitika Guardian, 21 November 1922, Page 3
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