THE CONWAY CASE.
SYDNEY, March 21. The date of the resumption of the inquest on Conway, who died on the Talune, has been altered to the 26th. The woman Smith was formally charged at the Police Court with causing Conway' s dcatfi, and remanded to the 24th.
The declaration of the poll under the Maori Councils Act took place at Rotorua on Friday. There were 42 candidates for 12 seats in, the council, and 404 votes were recorded. "I had once," writes a correspondent of the Daily News, "the curiosity to write to Windsor Castle and ask for the origin of the Queen's charitable practice of giving a ' bounty ' to women who had given birth to triplets. I had a very courteous reply from the Queen's private secretary, explaining that the first gift to a woman who had three children at a bivth was prompted solely by her Majesty's sympathetic feeling towards her. The case had happened to come to the knowledge of the Queen, and she sent a sovereign for each of the newly-arrived little Britorls, as an assistance to the mother in her embarrassment of family treasures. This had happened about 40 years before this correspondence, and quite early in the reign, and had cost the Queen's private puree about £3QO a year ever since. 1 '
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Otago Witness, Issue 2454, 27 March 1901, Page 17
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218THE CONWAY CASE. Otago Witness, Issue 2454, 27 March 1901, Page 17
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