POISONED BY HONEY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11684, 17 March 1900, Page 7

POISONED BY HONEY.

(Per United Phess Association.)

AUCKLAND, March 16.

A 2>cculiar case of poisoning from eating honey is reported from Onewhero, Lower Waikato. A party of young men had found a tree with a hive of bees lodged in it, and they felied the tree to obtain the honey. The honey was obtained, and some of the members of this party tasted it. and were almost immediately attacked with the most agonising pains. Walter and J. Morgan, sons of ..\iv K. Morgan, East Pukekohe, were ihc worst sufferers, and their agony v,-rs so great that it produced fits witn frothing at the mouth. Fortunately for them, one ot the party, Hagley, had declined to (astc the honey.'so that his .services were soon rec/iiiied us nurse. Matters, howovei. took a serious turn, and Dr Dalziell, of Piikekohe, wa.s sent for, and on arrival administered an antidote and injected an alkali "solution into the arms of (lie sufferers. One of tl;o Messes Morgan, in one ul his paroxysms, idl and cut°his face. The sufferers arc, however, now nearly well. -The tree containing the honey was a puliatea.

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