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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1199, 22 February 1895, Page 20

AQUA TOFANA Was a deadly poison made and sold by a woman called Tofania, in Italy, during the seventeenth century. She sold this poison in little flat vials, carrying on the practice tor over fifty years before she was discovered. Thousands of persons were poisoned by means of this dreadful drug. . The sale of poison is now prohibited by law, except under certain wise and precautionary safeguards. It is a pity that the sale of adulterated liquors is not in the same way prohibited, for they are little less than slow poison. Adulterated, cheap gin is often put into empty Wolfe's Schnapps bottles, and sold as pure. For this reason it is better to buy whole bottles in unbroken wrappers, and, after use, to break the bottles or deface the labels. Some of the adulterated liquors sold in country towns are nearly as fatal in the long run, if constantly drunk, as Aqua Tofana. 14

A bottle-nosed whale about 20ft or 30ft long was stranded on Mana Island on Friday morning.