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Bruce Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 58, 25 June 1908, Page 8

Mr W. Wagstaffe, who has been a member: of the London City, Guardians for 43 yearß, and who was entertained to dinner recently at the Waldorf Hotel, and presented with an addreßS and a piece of plate, as chairman of the Assessment Committee, made a remarkable statement about the city's wealth. He said that though they had only jrrisdiction over an area covered by one square mile, the annual rateable value had risen from £2,120,400 until it stood to-day at £6,786,895—an increase of £4,616,595, or a capitalised value of 140 millions.. As a matter of fact, the capitalised value of property in the city' to-day was 250 millions sterling, and he ventured to say that no other area in the world could claim such a record. Helena Roberta, a middle-aged woman, living in Bourke street, Sydney ? met her death in a strange manner.' ' Shortly before 9130 the other night j neighbors observed her leaning upon the front gate of her residence somewhat unsteadily, it appeared to him. After a few minutes a lad who had been standing opposite went across the street and found that her neck was wedged between the pickets of the gate. Constable Asquith, of No. 8 station was brought to the scene, but found the woman had been extricated from her position. He took her to Sydney Hospital, but life was there pronounced to be extinct. Some three months ago the woman had to be extricated from a similar predicament at the same place.