ALLEGED POISONOUS CHEESE.

Waikato Argus, Volume VII, Issue 519, 28 November 1899, Page 2 (Supplement)

ALLEGED POISONOUS CHEESE.

Tin: Agent-General has forwarded reforts on the Aldershot poisoning cases, t appears that no less than 30 soldieis showed symptoms of poisonintr, of whom four died. A number of sheep were turned on to the ground, and several died. Cheese was found in their stomachs, containing traces of fcyrotoxicau. At the inquest on the first two men who died, it was shown one had had no cheese, the other was with the troops when'cheese was serred to them. Mr Cameron says it was not shown that either of them had had any cheese, or that the cheese in the sheeps' stomochs was the same as that supplied to the troops. There was no evidence to show the cheese came from New Zealand, and though a statement was made to that effect, Mr Cameron promptly objected to it, as no evidence was offered on the point. He also wrote to the papers contradicting this statement, and another which said the cheese was supplied by the New Zealand Government. The verdict was that death was due to inflammation of the stomach, but what caused it there was no evidence to show. Mr Reeves says he is iuclined to think the incident has hud little or no effest as regards New Zealand produce.