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Patea Mail, Volume I, Issue 98, 18 March 1876, Page 3

The Ballarat. 'Courier reports that a death fretm a hivAc j>ite,.occii?ycsb w^T-ntiy.? A party of men were in the bar of tW Prince of W-ulus .Ildfel,: Middle Creek, ■four miles from Beaufort, thateycning. A daughter of the landlord (Mr Dnr.n) loid thorn tls,qro.\vas a. snake in the (lining-room, ami immediate search was instituted, without AwscicAAl. Tlh\V fdturivdd-'ttio thfe bar,, ami naturally durnbd upon shako stories.- a A Cenuan named Wilsblip a stoiiobreAkefj ‘said they Were harmless; • and he did ’’. lint hiiiiil catching 1 them''’with his hands."'* Miss Dunn at this mdnlenl again iuished iutD the 'bar,-'ex-' claiming 'that the shako was iff the diningroom. ufydlvo ,mr, six men entered the room, and Wilson, placing In’s foot -oh 'tlic si lake' about 'seven fn'eli t-'s'from Ids head, put his hand down-to Seize it. and was bitten ondhe’Cnigei' d- tl& tlis'ir look hold of ( the hail and - lifted, the snake, striking its head repeatedly: against the door.: . Afterwards did carried, iirout’ of the hotel and trampled it iip-dii ’the road;' Wi’son' showed' his linger,where, the marks of the bite,’were visible, but refused to-be ■ interfered . with..- He again-walked out, but returned in 'a l --few' minutes;^ahd fell into the amis of one of the men., A Tew convulsive struggles ; and life was extinct. The duration of the tium from the bite to ■tho d intis was "from eight to ten minute's.