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Hokitika Guardian, 18 December 1928, Page 6

AN JN DION ANT WIDOW. BORDEAUX, October 21. This morning a funeral hearse and a erod'd of mourners were waiting to escort to the cemetery a coffin containing the remains of Mine. Eugene Bru, a widow, 02 years of age, whose hotly had been found in the Gironde three days ago. The widow’s two daughters were receiving the mourners when suddenly their mother arrived in a motor ear, indignant at the false news. Her daughters fainted. ft appears that Mine, Bru had suddenly decided to visit some country ,'ousine and had not left word as to her whereabouts. The civil authorities have had to cancel the death certificate made out in her name and the body of tile unknown drowned woman lias been sent hack to the mortuary. TALL BUILDINGS. VIENNA, October 24. Lieiit-C'olonel J. Mitchell Monerieff, president of the Institution of Structural Engineers (London), speaking at the International Congress of Bridge Builders here, on behalf of the twelve British delegates expressed their cordial appreciation of the fact that the congress programme and other publications had been printed in English as well as German. This congress has assembled technicians rather than traders, and the discussions are therefore mainly technical. but the effect on the construction of lofty frame-buildings—not nesessarilv skyscrapers—is likely to be world-wide. It has already been virtually decided that the next congress will be held at Liege. Belgium, in 1930. and the following one in Londop in 1932.