A PAHIATUA TRAGEDY.
Wedding Party Poisoned.
Sad Ending of a Christmas
Dinner.
Two Deaths Reported.
Twenty Others Poisoned.
Supposed Terrible Conse-
quences of a Joke
(BY TELEGRAPH. — PRESS ASSOCIATION".)
Mastertok, this day. A sad case of poisoning occurred at Pahia. tua on Christmas Day, when the whole of theguests of Mr S. Naylor, whose daugbtor'3 wedding was being were attacked with violent vomiting and other symptoms of poisoning after dinner. Medical aid. was immediately summoned and the victims weio thought to be pro - grossing favourably, but lasc night two deaths resulted, Joseph Moore, a member of the County Council, and Mr Dickson, manager of the Wholesale Drapery succumbing to the effects of the poison which is supposed to have been accident, ally mixed in the Christmas pudding. Later. Twenty others who partook of the wedding fare at Pahiatua are in a critical condition. Dr. llosking", who was called to Pahiatua from Masterton, considers arsenic gob into |4ie food in mistake for baking soda. Another theory is that oxalic acid was put in the cakes in mistake for Epsom's salts, merely for a lark. Dickson is highly respected in Masterton, and was VV.JM. elect of the Masonic Lodge. Mr 3 Dickson is not expected to recover.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 308, 30 December 1891, Page 9
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