AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 June 1926, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association TURF AUTHORITY DEAD. MELBOURNE, June 25. Obitunn-—Archibald Yuille, a noted turf authority, aged 74 years. ALLEGED FORGERY. SYDNEY, June 24. Thomas Hughes, a clerk, aged 28, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment on the charge of refusing to pay for accommodation at a leading city hotel, and committed for trial on the charge of forging a cheque for £2OO on tlic Bank of New South Wales A ucklamUbrancli. 'l'lie police gave evidence that Hughes paid the hotel hill with a cheque for £2OO signed with the name of ‘' W. Crawford Young,” which was later returned fr,om the hank. Huglies recently arrived from Now Zealand, where he had been employed as the manager of a law hook publishing company, and the name of W. CTawford Young, which it is alleged that he forged, was the law book company’s auditor and attorney. METHODIST CHURCH. -MELBOURNE, June 24. The Methodist Church of Australia in a statement defining its attitude towards faith healing says:—The sick should look to a physician and not to a clergyman to perform the duty of a physician and surgeon. The Methodist Conference considers that a declaration of the attitude of the Methodist Church should he made in view of the advance in our midst of Christian Science, so called, and because of the deep interest evidenced in the past three years in Divine healing. The conference declares its faith in prayers for the sick, hut says that no prayer should he offered unless intercession is first made for repentance and for the flensing power of God’s holy spirit.