An Inquest Adjourned.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 31, 11 February 1904, Page 3

An Inquest Adjourned.

frer Press Association.) DUXUDIN, Feb. 10. An inquest was held to-day touching the death of Mary Cook, a married woman who died in the hospital. The medical evidence was to th« effect that deatlv was due to septic poisoning. There was an internal wound, ttic reasonable inference being that it was inflicted in an effort to procure a miscarriage. It could have been self-inflicted, but was more likely to have been inflicted by another person. Deceased told a medical man that she had caused a miscarriage herself, but Imd beeji wall coached by another woman. The iimpiest was adjourned til] Saturday, to secure the attendance of a nurse concerned. WOMEN INEMI'LOYEI), fn Russia women hav* much betteij ohanees of carving their fate independently of the men than, in anv other Continental country. But eveii tibere a tloveiuvor Jivs it in his power to erect impassable barriers to their advance. Thus in Kieft' qviite a number of g'h'ls and wonictv ilvad found employment iH various branches of the admiivistratio.il, and had left many Ivelp'less bachelors without work. The tlenerul tlovernor has now intervened to pul» matters jig Jit. And tlvis is how he has done it. -He has issued a circular to all governmental and commercial departments foAmldiiv'g thwn to allow females to remain employed in any branches of the A.dmii:viwtnrtiion, even as temporary hel|i«. Adi tliose girls and women who arc already in. service must, ho says, be reg»vide<i as having been illegally engaged, and will therefore have to leave at once, and no others must be taken on in future. Tlve ladies are wild with indignatioiH and the Uenerul (Jovurnor is being bomterded with petitions, but in Vain.