A FATAL DRAUGHT.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. A male patient at the Porinia Mental Hospital named Jeremiah Houchen, aged 46. died this morning through drinking a tobacco solution used for i sataping plants. Another patient-also drank some of the insecticide, but the j JnedJeal staff saved his life. -Sir Joseph Ward has been slightly inN disposed for the past day or two, but keep hie engagement to open tile (Otira tnnnel next Ihiesday, and will kare lor the West Coast this evening. t
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 105, 2 May 1908, Page 7
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85A FATAL DRAUGHT. Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 105, 2 May 1908, Page 7
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