SUPPOSED POISONED FRUIT.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 9177, 7 August 1895, Page 5

SUPPOSED POISONED FRUIT.

At New Plymouth, the other day, a little child was eating an apple, when elae was euddenly seized with symptoms of a severe illness. Medical assistance was called in, and on examination it was found that the child had been poiaoned by wme-

thing contained in the apple. The supposition is that the owner of the orchard, in which the fruit was grown, must have been syringing the trees with some blight-killing fluid, and the mixture got on to the apple. PROSECUTION FOR PERMITTING DRUNKENNESS. A Pres3 Association telegram from Dunedin states that, as the outcome of the inquest touching the death of Nicholas Been, who was found in a dying condition near the racecourse, proceedings have been instituted by the police against the licensee of the Hotel Metropole at St. Clair, for permitting drunkenness on his premises. DUNEDIN BOYS' HIGH SC3OOL. The High School Board of Governors at. Dunedin yesterday appointed Mr A.Wilson, 11. A., Rector of the Girls' High School, to be Rector of the Boys' High School. MEMORIAL TO BISHOP MORAN. A Press Association telegram from Dunedin states that, at a meeting of the Bishop Moran Memorial Committee, it was reported that upwards of £250 had been received in Dunedin. THE LICENSING ACT, At the Palmeraton North Police Court yesterday, Isaac Levy, licensee of the Albion Hotel, was fined £5 on each of the charges of selling liquor during prohibited hours and permitting gambling in his hotel. The convictions were ordered to be endorsed on the license. The charge of sly grcg selling again3t Cecilia Jacobsen was dismissed.