NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2548, 27 February 1923, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

Heard to be groaning in her bedroom after retiring to rest a lodger entered and was told' by Maria Alexander, aged 70, of Stratford, “I have taken spirits of salts. I got the wrong bottle out of the cupboard. I did not mean ill It was a mistake.” On the table near the bed was a small bottle and a cup contaning traces of spirits of salts, while in the cupboard was a small bottle containing a little whisky.'

“It may seem strange, but he died three times,” qaid 1 Dr. Lucas at a Barrow inquest: on an eight-year-old boy, Gordon Hay, son of an iron-ore miner, who died from lock-jaw. The boy fdl'l -on an old corned-beef can on November 15. The wound was dressed and apparently was healing when on Novem--22 the boy complained of a pain in the back, was unable to get up, and had a swollen face. In the hospital the boy was inoculated sevent or eight times, and everything possible was done to save his' life. He ceased breathing three times and nvas twice restored by artificial respiration, said Dr. Lucas. The verdict was in accordance with the medical evidence.