Concerning Women.

White Ribbon, Volume 9, Issue 97, 1 June 1903, Page 9

Concerning Women.

The Benchers of Lincoln’s Inn have granted permission to Miss Cornelia Sorabji to frequent their lihtary and consult and use the liooks therein. Miss Sorahji is a LL.B. of Bombay, who has practised as an advocate in the High Court there, and has gone to Lngland for further study. She is the cnly woman to whom the privilege of study in the Lincoln's Inn has hitherto lice 1 granted.

The first woman to pass the Civil Engineer's Examination in Paris, is MdHe. Kanyersky, who has obtained an appointment on the Russian Hallways.

A lady holds the post of Curator of the Botanical Gardens at Inchanga, South Africa.

Several Dani-h women's societies have petitioned for women to have the right of electing, and liemg elected for the Communal authorities.

It is a noteworthy fact that out of four obituary notices of women in the b.nglukwomiin $ Hntrw for January, Hireof the subjects were over eighty years of age. The age of the fourth is not

given, but as she is spoken of as travelling with her husband in 1857, her years were evidently not few. Apparently public woik agrees with women. • Miss Fiances Power Cobbe, who his done so much in the cause of the advancement of women, received congratulations on the attainment of her eightieth birthday in December last. • Mrs Mary Wright has lieen appointed as State Hairy Commissioner for Colorado. Hr. Mary Tucker has been made Sanitary Inspector iu St Louis. Both these offices are now held by women for the first time. Mrs M. Agnes Garrett and M»s Largaret 11. Gillespie were elected Justices of the Peace at the L)ecemlx;r elections in Wyoming. The Norwich Corpoiation has appointed a w oman as Cemetery Clerk. The \\ andsworth Borough Council have a lady Sanitary Inspector. Mary M. Adamson has been appointed by the Government of Cape Colony as lnspe<tor of Kindergarten work in their schools. The Home Office authorities have appointed Miss Martindale (who, with her mother and sister, visited New Ztaland a year or two since) as Woman Inspector to the Factory Department.

For the first time in the history of the Madras University, two orthodox Brahmin ladies have passed the English Language division of the B.A. examination.