AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 June 1926, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Australia & N.Z. Cabla Association.j BODY FOUND IN ROOMS. SYDNEY, May 31. Children playing in a recently vacated boardinghouse at Darlinghurst found among the rubbish in one of the rooms the head of a young woman. The police were informed. After a search in a trunk other units of the body were discovered. Examination of the body showed it bad been preserved. From papers also found in the room the police came to the conclusion that the body had been removed from a university hv a medical student against the strict rules. Ho will he asked to account for the presence of the body in his room. METHODIST CHURCH CONFERENCE. BRISBANE, June 1. The general conference of tho cussed the question of dancing and kindred amusements and readopted its ban against dancing, with the additional to the hook of rules.—“ That pn instruction is further given that our church building shall not, be used for dancing: neither shall dances be arranged with an object for raising money for church purposes.” This was adopted after a protest by Doctor Sugden th.it the carrying of the motion would cause a great deal of mischief. Tt- was a mistake to try to prohibit it. If dancing is prohibited why not gambling, card playing and theatre going.