INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 103, 9 April 1884, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per United Press Association.] POISONING BY STRYCHNINE. Waipawa, April 9. A man named Hans Anderson poisoned himself with strychnine at Makerutu yesterday. An inquest will be held. Dunedin, April 9. In the seduction case, Dunne v. Hugh Morris, in which £250 damages were claimed, Judge Williams found for plaintiff for £5O. The girl, aged 18, was employed in the same photographic gallery as defendant.

STRANGE DISCOVERY. A seam of heamatic ore, which is believed to be valuable, has been c’scovered wh' st cutting dowr Dowling Street to its permanent level, it bears very favorable comparison with Nelson, and also with English samples. It has been tried at the Hillside workshops and found satisfactorily. ANOTHER DEATH BY POISONING. Christchurch, April 9. Patrick McEveny, a farmer at Leeston, committed suicide this morning by taking strychnine. He had been drinking heavily, and was in pecuniary difficulties. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. Early this morning a house owned and occupied by Mr. H. B. Parenoon, at Richmond, was destroyed by fire. Insurance, £750, in National and Standard. THE POISONING CASE—INQUEST AND VERDICT. Opunake, April 9At the inquest held on Louise Marian Plumridge and two children, who died from poison, administered by Mrs. Plumridge, on Sunday evening last. Deceased’s brother, George Taylor, stated that deceased was forty years of age. She had a daughter by her first husband, Captain Higgins. She was about 24 years of age. While living in the King Country latterly, deceased talked about poisoning herself in consequence of love trouble, but he, the brother, thought it w’as only gammon. The jury after returning twice returned a verdict that deceased died through poison administered by her own hands, but the evidence did not prove her state of mind at the time the poison was taken. Dr. Gibbs, who held a post moi tern examination, stated in reply to the jury that there was little or no restriction on the sale of poision beyond a signature in the poison book, and a statement as to the purpose for which the poison is to be used. He thought the law very lax in that respect. An old colonist named Stal, from Nelson, died suddenly last night near Oeo, soon after retiring to bed, his two sons have land near Oeo, and the deceased was on a visit to them. DEATH FROM DELIRIUM TREMENS.

Auckland, April 9. The Ringarooma, which arrived from Sydney last night, reports the death of a saloon passenger named John Henty, at 5 o’clock last evening, off the Island of Kawau. The supposed cause of death was delirium tremens. Deceased had only three drinks on board. He is a son of one of the Messrs. Henty Bros., of Melbourne, and was manager of the Bank of New Zealand Agency, Sydney, to -which place he had a return ticket. On the second day out from Sydney he began to talk incoherently and wildly, and was put into a separate cabin and attended to by the steward. He talked about ringing up by Telephone for his wife and children. At five o’clock the captain went into the deceased’s cabin to see him, and he (the captain) said he would soon be on shore. Mr. Henty got up and dressed and put on his hat in order to go ashore, when he dropped down dead. He appears to have been about 85 years of age. THE EJECTMENT CASE. In the Hikutai ejectment case each of the prisoners were found guilty and fined £25 each, pending the consideration of the appeal the money to be handed to the Registrar.