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Kumara Times, Issue 1038, 28 January 1880, Page 4

The miners Who arrived per Opawa from Great Britain, under engagement to the Westport Colliery Company, are about commencing legal proceedings against the compauy. Mr Pitt, of Nelson, has taken up the case on their behalf. The danger of leaving poisonous drugs within the reach of children was illustrated at Ashbuoton. where an inquest was held on Friday, the 16th inst, at tfarris’s Winslow Hotel, on the body of Mary Jane Wills aged six months, before J, E. Trevor, Esq coroner. A jury was empannelled, of whom Mr J, Harris was appointed foreman. The evidence of the parents was taken, and ir appeared that the father was work ing some distance away from the house, and his wife went to him with a drink of tea. A bottle of chlorodyne was kept in the house, which was carefully hidden on a shelf. One of the children, about five years old, who had teen his mother giving a dose occasionally to the others, found the bottle during the absence of . bis mother, and administered a dose to the baby. On the mother’s return she found it gasping, and ran with it to her husband, who took it to Mr Chapman’s farm close by. They then brought the little patient to Ashburton, to Dr Trevor, where it lingered till 2 p.m, on Thursday, and then expired. A verdict of accidental death was returned.