TELEGRAMS.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 2716, 2 February 1892, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association)

Nelson, Yesterday

To-day being the fiftieth anniversary of the landing of the first immigrants of Captain Arthur Wakefield is celebrated with great eclat. A general holiday is observed, and the town is decorated with bunting. The weather is fine, but rather warm. The bands played the National Anthem. By nine o’clock all the school children, friendly societies, temperance societies, old settlers, and residents then assembled on Church Hill, where a short thanksgiving service was conducted by Mr Mules, Bishop Elect of Nelson. Among those on the platform were Bishops Julius, the Revs. Messrs Kemptborne and Cbatterton, the Hon Mr Seddon, the Mayor, and Captain Bourke of the warship Ringarooma. At the conclusion of the service the National Anthem was sung and the procession moved off to the Botanical Gardans, the whole of the street through which the procession passed being lined with holiday makers.

Masterton, Yesterday. The Wairarapa Daily says a man named Blacker was recently admitted to the Masterton Hospital suffering from violent fits of vomiting and purging. His eyes were swollen, and he complained of excruciating abdominal pains, and had an unquenchable thirst. Dr Hosking at once concluded he had been poisoned by arsenic, and treated him accordingly, with the result that the

patient is now fully recovered. He was working with a number of other men on a station at Castlepoint, and as the wbare in which they were living, was overrun with fleas, an effort was made to destroy the vermin by spreading the floor with sheep dip. The floor was afterwards swept by Blackler, and it is thought he must have inhaled the arsenic. The whole of the men who were in the room when the floor was swept were attacked more or less by fits of vomiting, and presented other symptoms of poisoning. was the only one who became seriously ill.