A FATAL WHDDING.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3036, 31 December 1891, Page 2

A FATAL WHDDING.

ALL THE GUESTS POISONED TWO DEATHS. TWENTY OTHERS IN" A CRITICAL CONDITION. (I!V TKI.EOItAI'It — l'llEfS ASSOt.'f W'iON.) M AST Kit I ON. List N iL'ht. A sad case nf poimining "cc»it.-I at, l'aliint.ia on Christ mas Pay, u hoi the whole of tin) of Mr lv N iy! "i". whose daughter's wedding v/as being eelebiate'l, wore attacked with vi lent. vomiting, and other symptoms of poisnnimr ofter rliniii 1 )-. Medical mif 1 was imtnicli.it -iy summoned, and the victims were thought t.) bo iir igressing favour ibly ; but li.it night two deaths resulted, Mr Joseph Moure a member of t.ho Comity Council, and Mi- Dickson, maunder of a wholesale dr ipery company -atccunibing t the effects of the poison which is hui posed to have beon accidentally inked in tho Christmas pudding. Later. Twenty others who pat took of the wedding fare at I'ahiatua nt-3 in a critical condition. Dr. Hosking who was culled to l'ahiiitua from Masterton considers thrvt. arsenic got into the food in mistnko for biking soda. Another theory is that oxalic acid was put in the calces in mistake for Kpsom Kilts merely for a lark. Mr Dickson was highly respected at Masterton and was W.M. elect of the Masonic Indite. Mrs Dickson is not expocted to recover.