THE "FATAL CHRISTMAS DINNER." INQUEST.

Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd and their elder daughter, residing at Boakley Farm, Brokenborough, were all poisoned from eating poisonous roots with their dinner on Christmas day. The roots belong to the species of ranunculus known as Monkshood or Aconitum Napellus, which was dug up in mistake for horse radish. Mrs. Lloyd shortly succumbed. The prominent symptoms in the survivors being very weak intermittent pulse, with numbness and tingling all over the body. Mr. Lloyd, frantic, swallowed a strong emetic of mustard, a treatment the daughter refused to adopt. Dr. Pitt, in the absence of Dr. Kinneir, was first in attendance on the survivors, and administered emetics and hot water to feet, and strong brandy and water, which acted speedily, and brought up several pieces of the undigested roots. Latest accounts state that the survivors are still in a precarious condition.