PAPATOETOE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 8, Issue 463, 12 September 1919, Page 1 (Supplement)

PAPATOETOE.

ST. JOHN'S PRESBYTERIAN CHI'RCH For many years this congregation has been seeing a vision of a beautiful brick church on the site now occupied by one of the oldest buildings in the Auckland Province. This has served as church, day school, and Sunday school. Soon it will disappear. '"The old order changeth giving place to the new." The fund for the new structure has now reached a fair size, the great bulk of it being the result of straight out giving. During the war it was felt that nothing ought to compete with patriotic efforts, and so no special work was done. Now that the war is past there is strong feeling that the congregation ought to bestir itself. And this is being done with enthusiasm. At a large committee meeting held on Tuesday afternoon, it was unanimously decided to hold a Rose and Carnation Show in the Town Hall, in the first week of December. Mr W E Lippiatt, the famous rose grower, had told the minister a few days previously that he would be delighted to make an exhibit, and also to act as judge of the competive section. In addition to the Rose Show which will be opened in the afternoon, there will be a promenade concert in the evening. Arrangements are rapidly maturing, and, given fine weather, success seems well assured. This ellort is subsidiary to a final and bigger effort in March of next year, when an Autumn Fair will be held. There is to be a scheme of decoration in connection with this which will be artistically delightful. By that time it is hoped that the j building iund will be £.">oo bigger than at present.

MANUREWA. DEAM FROM POISONING Theleath occurred at Manurewa on Monday afternoon about 3.30 of on elderly resident of Manurewa, in the person ot Miss Mary Jefferson, as the result of poison, self administered. The deceased, who was of independent means, was 78 years of age and resided with Mrs H. Calder. From evidence given at the inquest held before the district Coroner, Mr Cecil Roadley J P., on Tuesday at Manurewa, the facts were established that deceased on Sunday evening last, administered to herself a considerable quantity of eucalyptus, and a lesser quantity of morphia. Dr A. Brook: eld was immediately called in, but although he gave individual attention throughout the whole of tho night, he was unsuccessful in returning the patient ti normal condition, the comatose condition eventually resulting in death about 3 p.m. on Monday. The deceased had been accustomed to complain of noises in her head, which she likened to the lashing of the waves on the sea shore, and the roaring of lions. Her intention to terminate her life, was established by the fact that she had written a letter the previous day stating her intention of terminating her life. The Coroner returned a verdict that considering her advanced age, the deceased's will power had been imimpaired to such an extent that temporary insanity ensued, under the influence of which she had terminated her existence by taking poison.