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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 18, 19 December 1884, Page 4

A short time ago the cook at a school m France having gathered a quantity of poisonous mushrooms m tbe vicinity, served them to the boys, thirteen m number, for breakfast. The whole of them were seized with most violent pains. Several doctors attended them, but m vain. Eleven of the children died, and the rest with the usher, were ia a critical condition. In cooking this treacherous food it is generally believed that if a. silver coin placed m the saucepan is not d'scoloured the mushrooms are wholesome. The test was resorted to on this occasion, but signally failed, A month previously two little girls were poisoned at Arras through a similar misadventure ; and a further case took place near Lyons, when awhole family were attacked — the father, mother, and five children. Two of the children died, and the remaining sufferers were m a precarious condition.