POISONED WITH HONEY.
AUCKLAND, March 16. A peculiar 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 felled the tree to obtain the honey. The honey "was obtained, and some of the members of the party tosted it, and were almost immediately attacked with the most agonising pains. Walter and J. Morgan, sons of Mr R. Morgan, East Pukekohe, were the worst sufferers, and their agony was so great that it produced fits with frothing at the mouth. Fortunately for them, one of the party, Bagley, had declined to taste the honey, so that his services were soon required as nurse. Matters, however, took a serious turn, and Dr Dalziell, of Pukekohe, was sent for, and on arrival administered an antidote and injected an alkali solution into the arms of the sufferers. One of the Messrs Morgan, in one of his paroxysms, fell and cut his face. The sufferers are, however, now nearly well. The tree containing the honey was a pukate'a.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2403, 22 March 1900, Page 22
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