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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14684, 18 November 1909, Page 5

OTAGO CHICK 12 L' ASSOCIATION A meeting of the Otago Cricket Association was held at the oliice of the secretary (Mr E. S. Wilson) yesterday afternoon. The members present were Messrs J. J. Clark (in the oliair), J. Hope, G. Wycherley, A. Nelson, J. Huig, C. G. Wilson, and L. C. Gooch. Tho Carisbrqok Cricket Club wrote applying for tho entry of another toam in t'ne Second Grade, as several players had joined sineo the entries were sent in.— Declined, as the rules provided that such applications must be made 10 days before tho opening of tho season. D. Smyth, secretary of the Umpires' Association, wroto thanking tho council for its generous donation of £5 ss.—Received. Tho Rector of the Boys' High School wrote asking that the association coach might attend from 4 to 5 p.m. on Fridays instead of t'ho days suggested by the association.—Resolved, with regret, that the arrangements for tho coach's attendance could not be altered. The Secretary of the Canterbury Cricket Association wroto presuming that tho annual interprovincial match would be commenced on Christmas afternoon, as usual, and that Canterbury proposed sending a junior representative team to Dunedin to play a local team on December 25 and 26.—Received, the wishes of the Canterbury Club to be acceded to; the Carisbrook Ground to be securod for tho juniors. GENERAL. It was decided that Eckhold and C. Beal be substituted for llarraway aV.d L. Chadwick in connection with, the coaching arrangements.

PHOSPHORUS POISONING. DEATH OF AN INFANT. An inquest was held' before Mr C. C. Graham (coroner) yesterday touching the death of Constance Nielson, an infant 19 months old, who died after biting the heads off matches and swallowing them. Evidence was given by deceased's parents to the effect that the child had somehow got hold of a match-box and had chcwed part of the contents. This became apparent when several matches with the heads bitten oft were discovered. A doctor was immediately sent for, but had been unable to hold out any hope of the child's recovery. Dr M'Kellar, in his evidence, explained the lengthy interval between the swallowing of tho poison and the effects of it by etafcing that in phosphorus poisoning there was often a considerable lapse of time before the effects manifested 1 themselves. A verdict of death from phosphorus poisoning was returned. The Coroner said 110 considered the case a sad one, and in commenting upon it said there wa.> a bill being brought before Parliament to do away with the manufacture of phosphorus matches on account of the danger of disease to which those engaged in the trade were subjected. Such a hill, if passed, would also prevent the possibility of such sad accidents as the one they were now concerned with. — A "flask" of quicksilver weighs 761b.