A Shooting Party Poisoned.
BY EATING WILD HONEY. Arthur Cooper, Edward Owen, and George Carder of Ponaonby, Auckland, and Thompson and Hughes, of Kerepeni, were poisoned with wild honey at Piako river. They were taken to the Thames. Cooper and Hughes have recovered and hopes are entertained for their recover/. After the poison had done its deadly work among four of the party, it was decided to return to the Thames in the oil launch. Cooper and Hughes were too weak to do anything, being occasionally attacked with a kind of paralysis, all they could do was to lie in the bottom of the launch. Carder, too, was very ill and the onerous task of looking after the engines fell on Owen, who was also suffering severely from the effects of the poison. There was whisky on board and by drinking the liquor, the effects of the poison were diminished, and Owen was able to attend to the work on the continuance of which the lives of the others depended. He drank kerosene and whisky until they acted as an emetic, and though he nearly succumbed he managed to stick to the engines till the wharf was reached. It was a most trying and sensational journey.
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Manawatu Herald, 7 May 1904, Page 2
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206A Shooting Party Poisoned. Manawatu Herald, 7 May 1904, Page 2
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