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Candlenuts Did This
rpHE Sydney newspaper heading “Natives JL Get Drunk on Candle-nuts” opens up new and exciting possibilities for consistent Island drinkers.
It apperas that wharf labourers, un loading a vessell from the East Indies, thought a consignment of candle-nuts looked good; and, as that is all that matters to a Sydney watersider, they ate of them copiously. (History does not relate how they got the shell off the candle-nuts. That is the problem that makes life so interest ing in the candle-nut world.) Within a short time, 15 wharfies bit the dust. All became intoxicated and fV »en violently ill: three were rushed to hospital for treatment: one is said to have gone blind for half an hour.
Island owners of pillaged cargoes from Svdney at least have something to thank candle-nuts for.