HONEY POISONING.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1722, 19 July 1883, Page 4

HONEY POISONING.

Tijk following iSettiJiJei§n,.app^r| i ii j tliH B'i>/ Ctf->-Pk>ny* ffik'hf Perhaps jßotno, o£..awr can, jn{pnn. uj ' wlietlfci' tfiV] ]aM; referfecl f t6gfoW^h»tHifc' distVict :—Sir,—A'serioiiß case of poisouUng thtough eating ihoiey occurred 1 on Sunday week. I send you the particulars, which please to punht-h in , th,^ Timer th it the gooil people of Tauranga may bo cantoned against buying Mauugatawa honey. On Sunday { evening a native named Hju'oinona I'aora tojk a little clear honey comb from a f box of bees at Obinekalue, a' settlement between Maungatnpn and Maunjratawa. He states that lie atu a piece of honey about the s>ize of two fingers, but, observing that it had an'ilmisuai taste, he was afraid to eat more. Three other natives from Maungatapn also tasted the^ honey, but, were advised by Haromona not to eat it. All four were taken ill some half-hour after eating the honey. They felt no pain but their limbs became riged, and Haromona, who had eaten the most, soon lost consciousness, and for 4 hours lay seemingly dead. The natives took them into the sea, but as that did not give relief, one wiser than the rest, Mho I believe had been a sailor, gave them an emetic made with salt ana warm water This caused vomiting, and soon brought them round. Haromona states that for three days he could not bend his arms or legs, and when they began to come right they j»ave him great pain. There is a weed called Waoriki which grows in the swamps at Maungatawa so th« natives say, it is described as being a white clover with a yellow blossom like that of the furze plant. It does not blossom till late iv the Autumn and it is from this flower that the poison honey is supposed to be made. The natives also state that their horses are frequently rendered lame through standing in the swamps in which it grows. Haromona says that a native died at Te Puke some years ago through eating bush honey got from a tree at that place, and that one named Hare Toniika almost died the winter before last through eating some near Maungatawa. He tells me there is no danger in eating in the summer before the Waoriki is in blossom. I may say in conclusion that should Captain Tovey or any other public spirited gentleman feel ai&pobcd to have the honey analized, I will gladly procure some from Haromona's box, and also a plant of Waoriki and leave it at your office. I enclose my name and address and remain, youis truiy. —Bkuhivk | j j |

Ax liusti soldikb, when using the bayonet in action for the first time, exultantly exclaimed, " Captain, darlint, it nous into them quite aisy." Sophie Aksolm being told that a Capuchin monk had been devoured by r.its exclaimed. " Poor animals : what a terrible thing hunger must be !" A Lady onpc requested her husband to inform her *' what difference there was between the meaning of export and transport ?" " My dear," replied the gentleman, " if you Were exported I should be transported." The builder of a church now In course of construction, when the toast of his health was given, rather enigmatically replied that he was " more fitted for the scaffold than the public platform." Thkkk is one theatrical manager in this country who cm refuse to entrage a woinanwithout making an enemy of hor. He tells her— with an air of regiet, too— that she's too young. Coming to the Point.— " Sir." wrote a tradesman to a debtor, "if you will favour me with the amount of my bill, you will oblige me ; if not, I must oblige you." T.v the course of a comparison of the size of the planets, an imaginative astronomer remarks : " Apply the principle that attraction is in proportion to the mass, and a man who weighs 100 pounds on the earth weighs 3!)(i on Jupiter and only 58 on Mars, while on the asteroids he could play with boulders for marbles, hurl hills like Milton s angels, leap into the fifth-storey window with oase, tumble over precipices without harm, and go around the litt'e worlds at t>cven jumps." Ay editor in the interior of the Stati I wrote ji bripf local, averring that " windows of the church need washing badly. They are too dirty for any use, and are n disgrace to our village." The compositor was but human,, and could never allow such a brilliant opportunity to pass by unimproved. The paper appeared, and the poor scribe wiUed clean down into his boots when ho discovered that the word " windows " had been transformed into " widows " and atla«t advices he trm barricaded in his sanctum, endeavouring to explain the matter thmujrh the keyhole to a unall army of wild-eyed women, dressed in black and armptl with olubs. Even* the Greeks of the proud old " Orthodox " Church are making growth in toleration. A young (ireek in Con« stantiuople, lately converted, was appointed to some small office under the Greek Government, and went to his official superior to confess to him that he had become an urun^elist. He expected to bo driven out with abuse as a heretic. But, to his astonishment, he was informed that hts desertion of the Church of his fathers Would not alter his official relations^ He Was even permitted the liberty of absenting himself from the Greek Church service on state occasions, when officials are required to bo present. A Pittiit* Dog Stouv,— A sportsman living in Afton. Chenanco county N.Y., is in possession of a dog for which he had refused 100 dollars, whose general knowledge of what is required of him while hunting can't be equalled by every canine. He has had a contrivance made, which is fastened to the dog's back, in which he places his shot gun, both barrels loaded heavily and the hammers at full cock. To the triggers is fastened a string, which is placed in the dog's mouth. When all is ready the dog starts for a flock of partridges, and when within a few yards he crouches down and pulls the string. The first attempt he made he bagged fourteen birds, and since the first trial has killed over forty in this manner. Got ' Eai !— A New Englander who was a wag kept an rating-house near Boston, where, as he used to say, you could get anything that was ever made to t-at. . One day in came a New-Yorker, and, stepping up to the bar, asked ' the landlord, what he could give him for dinner. "Anything, sir," laid' the host— "anything from a pickled elephant to a canary bird's tongue." " Waal," said the New-Yorker, eyeing him, "I gues« I'll take a piece of pickjled elephant. " " Well, ' We've got 'em— got 'pm all ready, right here.ip the house; but you'll'have to take a whole 'un, 'cause we never cut 'em.'! /ThcNewYbrker thought he would talte' some cod-fish and potatoes. , Rats akd Miob.— lf you wish to de« stroy them'jjet a packet of Hill's Magic Vkrmli< Kiu.kk in packets, (id, 9d, and Is, to be obtained of all storekeepers, or from T. >B. Hill by enclosing an extra stamp. , . , „ t Lifk in* the Busk— Tiiex akd Now.j- , It is generally supposed that in the bush we have to put up' with many discomforts 'and privations in thc>bape of food, Formerly it was so, but no^/Mfkrtbjtf 4 tß..tiMt,> who.) $u\ himself , dwelt in the bush, if food does consist chiefly [of tinned meats,his Colonial >Sauck gives to them a. most delectable flavour, makinr them as rrpll of the plainest food most enjoyable, and instekd as bard bJsciiits'andlindi^stible'aa'HipeVThis ImiPROVSD GqLONrAt, Baking Powdkr. makes, the "very fee breadf icoriM^c.kci.'and psw'tVr far superior , and' • more- wno'eiomeV thaiyyeast or leaven. <,sold br all storekeepers .whp.jcan obtain' itffrmn^y^ejrcKinrm'Aucklinll-.ij , '