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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 9028, 5 November 1892, Page 9 (Supplement)

Tho Southland Times of the 28th ulb., contains an account of the farewell banquet given to Mr. Thomas Culpan, who has represented the New Zealand Insurance Company in Invercargill for the past three or four years, and who has been promoted to tho post of company's superintendent manager for Tasmania. Among thoso ab the banquet were the Hon. J. G. Ward, Postmaster-General, and the Hon. H. Feldwick, M.L.C., who bore testimony to Mr. Culpan's worth, both as a citizen and a business man. He was always ready to assist in every good cause. Mr. Culpan was presented with an illuminated address, in which tho subscribers, the representatives of the 19 insurance companies doing business in the town, expressed tho following sentiments : —" We desire to assure you of our warm feelings of pleasure and gratification at your well-deserved promotion, and also to express our regret at losing the highly-prized companionship of a muchesteemed and genial friend. Wo feel confident that your excellent business attributes, straight-forward character, and social qualities will ensure similar feelings of respect and esteem being yours in the neighbouring island bo which you aro going, and cordially wish you, Mrs. Culpan, and family all prosperity." Mr. Culpan is the son of Mr. William Culpan, sen., now residing at Sb. Mary's Road, Ponsonby, one of our early settlers who arrived here in the Jane Gifford 50 years ago. Dr. Danford Thomas held an inquesb ab Paddington on the body of Albert E. Bird, two years old, the son of Frederick Richard Bird, a salesman, residing at 8, Maida Hill, West. The mother's evidence was to the effect that the little boy, in getting oub of bed, alighted on a needle, which ran into the fleshy part of the heel. She pulled the neodle out, and troubled nothing further about it, and the child ran about as usual. On the Sunday following, however, he was fidgety, and on the Monday the foot began to swell. She had a doctor, and the part was poulticed. Subsequently abscesses formed on the body, which set up blood poisoning, and he died in St. Mary's Hospital on Monday. Dr. Herbert Hatch said bhab deabh was due to blood poisoning following injury to the foot. The coroner, addressing the mother, said thab parents should always take care of injuries of this kind, as any little particle of food might get into the wound and set up a ferment. The jury returned a vardicb of accidental death.