DEATH OF A YOUNG WOMAN.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 9, 10 July 1909, Page 5

DEATH OF A YOUNG WOMAN.

[BT TELEGBAPH — PBESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, This Day. An inquest was opened at the hospital this morning on the body of Clara F. Waldon, aged 19, admitted on 30th June, and who died yesterday. Evidence was given that the deceased became ill on 24th June, after eating some fruit. At this stage the inquest was adjourned, at the request of the police.

A Welsh pony stallion was shipped by the Moana to Sydney yesterday, on behalf of Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd. The animal was bred at Maraekakaho station, Hawkes Bay, and it is likely that more of these ponies will be forwarded to Australia in the near future. The capital value of the Makara Council this year is £725,407, and the rate struck is § d in the £. The Government subsidy on rates for 1907-8, collected up to *31st July, 1909, will amount to £555. The approximate income for the year ending 31st March, 1910, will be— Rates, £2266; Government subsidy, £555 ; hotel license, £25 ; slaughterhouse license and royalties, £30. These give a total of £2876. The past and present members of thj Wellington Nava' Artillery spent a very pleasant time at the Jervois-quay boat station last night. Captain Somerville occupied the chair. An attractive programme of music, etc., was gone through and a number of toasts were honoured. Special giaise was given to Gunner 1?. Campbell and Mr. It. Couper, joint secretaries, for services rendered to the Old Navals' Association and the present Wellington Naval Artillery Company respectively. A meeting of the Society for the Protection of Women ana Children was held yesterday, and was attended by Mesdames A. R. Atkinson (ir the chair), W. Fell, A. Eoby, W. A. Evans, the Rev. Mother Mary .Joseph Aubert. Three new cases were reported. Tt was announced that the following subscriptions had been received since, the previous meeting: — Benjamin and Co., 10s 6d ; Mrs. H. Crawford, 10s; T. W. Whitehouse and Co., H.W. and Co., and Wellington Woollen Company, 5s each. An emergency wagon-ladder, specially designed by Messrs J. C. Russell and A. F. Lord, of the Wellington Electric-U Tramways staff, is used in repair work when brpakages take place in the overhead wires. The wagon has been favourably reported upon by experts con nected with electrical matters, and tiie latest proof of its merits is seen in au order from the Auckland Electrical Syndicate for the construction of a wagoa for use on the Auckland tramways. It has been built at the establishment of Messrs. W. A. J. Dutch and Co., and it will be shipped to Auckland in a few days' time. With regard to the adjustment of accounts as between the councils of the Hutt county and the county of Makara, which separated some time ago, a communication was received from Mr. W. S. Short, of the Public Works Department, by the Makara Council today, to the effect that he had been appointed to hold an enquiry and make an award. The separation was effected in November, 1907, and one item of dispute is a claim by the Makara Council for its apportionment of the rates from that time to March, 1908. Another is the j equity of redemption — a matter of between £3000 and £4000— on the Council Chambers in Lambton-quay. It was decided to hold a special meeting when the council's solicitor returned to town. Very rarely indeed does an Anglican Bishop exercise his power of veto at a n.eeting of synod. Synod is composed of three '"houses" : the Clergy, the Laity, and the Bishop hintself. When a pioposilion is brought forward in synod, it must be agreed to by all three houses — a f all event, by a majority. In the ! Anglican Synod yesterday, a long debate j took place on a proposal to devote portion of the church acre in Wanganui to I commercial purposes, the idea being to build with the revenue derived therefioru a church more in keeping with the reeds of the parish. Ifc appears that many years ago soldiers, who died in the defence of their country, and others, were interred in the ground, but most of the graves have long since lost arty trace of caie that may have been originally bestowed on them. One speaker declared that the trustees of the land had given authority for a right-of-way through the ground, and thivt when, a fence was being erected, and post holes wove being dug, remains were found. He urged that it would be more in keeping with the fitness of things to have the remains carefully exhumed and reinterred in the public cemetery. The laity and the clergy, by an overwhelming majority, approved the suggested 1 course, but Bishop Wallis vetoed the decision. He did so, he said, with very great pain, but he pointed out that there was the right of appeal to general synoa. In the last fourteen years the Bishop has exercised his power of veto only four times.