GENERAL NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 5 March 1913, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

A WOMAN COXTHACTOK. iSc'namnegondorf, a growing and fashionable .suburb of Berlin, prides itself on possessing tlie only woman builder and contractor in Germany. This is Frau Henkel, who has carried on jier business 'successfully for four years. The fact that she was the proprietor and manager of the firm of Henkel became public only the other day. The public authorities were asked to enquire into the business, as tnere was an allegation that it was not an independent concern. They found that Frau Henkel was the real and effective manager, and that she employed her husband as master of the works. The suggestion that she wa.s acting for someone else was unfounded.

RUSSIAN WOMAN DOCTOR. One hundred and seven ty-eight women students received their doctor's degree in medicine the. other day at Moscow (says a recent "Evening Standard"). They wore highly complimented by the examining committee of the faculty on their general efficiency. The number of women entering for the medical profession in Russia is most markedly increasing. In Moscow there are over four hundred lady students in the medical faculty attached to the uTiiversity :i n.l about the same number in KharKoff and Ivieff. After medicine, jurisprudence appears to have the next greatest attraction for women attending the miivPT'Mtv ard courses. The ladies' high school in this city is attended by over fifteen hundred students.

AX ATTEMPTED ABDUCTION*. An attempt to abduct an heiress at Allentown, Pennsylvania, in broad daylight, ended in the arrest of ati over ardent suitor on a charge of kidnapping. Mr Samuel Sinclair, a member of a family of wealthy Quakers, appeared (says the "Mail"), with a friend in a taxi-cab outside the home of Miss Anna Steckel's father justas Miss Steckel was returning from a shopping tour. The men seized her. pinioned her arms, and thrust, liev into the tnxicftb, where they smothered her head in a rug. The driver afterwards said he had been engaged "for a 'wedding," and at first regarded tlie proceedings as a joke. But the girl's half-suppressed screams"alarmed hiin. and instead of carrying out Mr Sinclair's command to "drive into the country and to obey orders," he drove " ith all speed to the police stattion. ! There Mr Sinclair and his friend were arrested, and Miss Steckel sent home |in a state of collapse. Mr Sinclair told the police that Miss Steckel | had consented to be kidna.pped so as to deceive her father, who objected to her engagement.