TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 794, 26 October 1904, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Per Presi Association),

DDISEDIN. October 25

An inquest was opened at Balclutha to-day touching the death of two newly born infant twins. Susanah Wainwright, single, employed as a housekeeper with a farmer at Waitepeka, left the house of her employer on Sunday morning. After her departure traces of a recent confinement were found in the Btable v and the police were communicated .with. On Monday the constable found the woman at the railway station near the farm with a carpet bag containing two infants. She stated that they had been born on Saturday night and had died. The father, she said, was at Invercargill, and she was on her way there. Evidence was given that the woman would not be m a fit condition to appear for nine days. The Coroner stated that a post portein had been held on the bodies. There were no marks of violence, but the police were makiDg an investigation, and the inquiry could not go on in the woman's absence. The inquest, was adjourned accordingly till Thursday, 3rd November. NAPIER, October 25. I A poll of ratepayers was taken today on a proposal to borrow £2,000 for the purchase of the Athenaeum and the establishment of a public library and reading room and technical school. Little interest was taken in the poll, the proposal being lost by 68 votes, 355. votes being recorded against it, and 287 for it. CHRIBTCHURCH, October 25. The executive committee of the Canterbury Employers' Association to-night carried a resolution expressing approval of the nomination of Mr Samuel Brown (Wellington) and Mr William Scott (Dunedin) as employers' representative and deputy respectively, in the Arbitration Court. AUCKLAND, October 25. At the Hospital Commission to-day, further evidence regarding the treat, ment of former patients was taken. One of the ex-patients examined made complaints about the food supplied and his treatment in general, Dr "Constance Frost, honorary bacteriologist and pathologist at the hospital, was examined in ref eren cc to the presence of the seniormedical oflicer in the laboratory; she said he had not been there lately, but that formerly he was there so much that it interfered with her work. He had made anthrax cultures a practice. ol which she did not approve, on account of the danger attached to it. So far as she knew no ill effects followed the making of these cultures.