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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 414, 25 January 1909, Page 7

; At the inquest at Doptfprd recently on • Mrs. Elizabeth Mary Holmes, sixty-five, de- [ scribed as tho widow of the Rer. 'Henry Holmes, tho coroner's officer stated that ; n tho Woman's rooms at Rokebv Road, Brockley, where she was found dead, hfc discovered ' several sums of money wrapped up in paper in match-boifis and plarod in the corners of the room. Ho also found a Post Offico Savings Bank book crediting Mrs. Holmes with' a balanoo of £130. Tho Coroner: "If sho had no blood relations tho furniture, money and everything goes to tho Crown." The medical evidence showed that death was due to pneumonia, and tbe jury returned a von diet of "Death from natural causes." Tho "Caucasian Post" has authority for the announcement that the construction of the- long-projected transmontnno railway between tho termini of Mzrh6t and Vlndikiwkas, a distance of about l≤o miles, has now been finally decided on. This enterprise involves the piercing of tho lofty Caucasian range by a tunnel n.littlo over 14 miles CI versts) in length. This tfill bo tfio longest tunnel in. the world, tho Simplon, whieli now holds that distinction, being a little ever 1"H miles long. The work of construction will occupy about ten years, and the cost is computed at £6,500,000. Woods* Great Peppermfat Onre' for" Con B n s and Colda never fails. 1» 6o> and 2s. Bd. uS