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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 975, 3 September 1881, Page 2 (Supplement)

A very important decision was given by Judge Ward at Invercargill recently. It was to the effect that a bill of sale given three days before a declaration of insolvency had been filed held good against the body of the creditors. We (European Mail) hear that so many persons contemplate proceeding in August to Mr. G. Vesey Stewart’s third special settlement at Te Puke, Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, that it has been determined to dispatch a vessel direct from London to Tauranga, for the convenience of the settlers, thus obviating the trouble and expense attending transhipment from Auckland. Accordingly it has been arranged that Messrs. Shaw, Savill and Co.’s first-class favorite clipper, the May Queen, will be dispatched from the East India Docks on August 25th, booking passengers direct for Tauranga. This is a specially favorable opportunity for those desirous to join Mr. Stewart’s settlement, of the present state of which we should be glad to have some particulars. The Bay of Plenty Times warns the public against allowing their children to eat the seed of the castor oil plant, which is growing in one part of the township, as we are informed it contains a deadly poison. One of Mr. Hardy’s children ate some of the seeds on Sunday, and, we understand, is in a very critical state, and two or three other children, which ate some at the same time, were also attacked with sickness, but are now out of danger. It is not generally known that the seed of this plant is poisonous, but now that the plant is becoming pretty extensively cultivated it would be well for settlers to know this so that they may keep their children and cattle from partaking of the seed. There is a fine crop of castor oil plants growing on the road at the foot of the redoubt, and, considering the danger to children and cattle, we think the Town Board should have them cleared away.