The Archive · 1930

Circus Troupe Poisoned

The New South Wales police are puzzled over the wholesale poison. ing of a troupe of circus people Deniquin. Six members of the troupe, which were known as Me= Farlane's circus, were conveyed 1 hospital. One member of the circus, the nominal head, William Moana, who was better known to the public og "Maori Bill" has died, "Two of the others are in a precarious condi tion while the rest are expected to recover. It appears that, owing to the drought, water is hard to obtain and as the existing water in som@

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