OBITUARY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 494, 29 April 1909, Page 5

OBITUARY.

LADY JANET CLARKE,

',(BT'IELEGR,AFH—iPBESS 'iSBOOIATION—COPTEIOHTj) V faeo. April 28, : - 0.25',a.m.) : Melbourne, April 28. Obituary: Lady Janet Clarke,' vrjdow of tJio.la-tys Sjr William Clarke,. . ■''

{Janet Lady Clarke was .president of .the Australian Women's National ' League, ■ Victoria. ShV was interested in .all Questions affecting the wolforo of 'women,. jv,as prominent in nhilantliropjc movements,,and .did much to assist the Me.lb.o,urno University fund in 1901-05. According to •"Johns's Notable Australians,'" she was : a daughter of tho late iPeter Snodgrass.'M.L.A., of Victoria, and married in 1873 as 'his -second 'wife'the Hon. Sir Wm. John Clarke, -who .dibd in 189,7. It was mainly through her munificence that Trinity. Hostel,: which forms an integral' part ipf the .college was supplied with a ipejv manoht. building .erected, within the College precincts and named "The Janet.Qlarke Budd-, lngs," JJor a long time prior, to her death .shesuffered a trying illness.}

J3X-JTJDGE WILSON, osr TBi.^oßi.vn—j-itssa associatiioNjl Auckland, April 28. Et-Judge Wilson, of tjho Nativo Land Court, died tcrday. Deceased, who was born in 1829, arrived in Now Zealand au 1838, his early days baing spent in the Bay of Islands district.

JUDGE EDGER. ■:■;,■' G . ... Auckland, April 58. Judge Edger, of the Native, Land Court, dietd. itp-jday; : . " '•. ,4»ige Wdger .-was .born at Kithholton,; .Him.tdngdon'shire,' ja 1854. ..Ho arrived': in Auckland" bis parents, in 1862, > ;by the ship Matilda iyattenbach. in :company ■•with' the Albej'tland settlers, .jje joined the staif of tjb,e Native Land'. (Court in 1879, and quaked «s ,a barrister and, solicitor ten years later. ";: J.u 3.891 lie was appointed Registrar .of itlie Native Land ■ Court.,- and w#s appointed to a judgeship in 1894. '■ His wjfe'-jvfts the daughter of Sir. C, Langsford,' of Auckland. . ;.' .