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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1620, 28 January 1886, Page 4

■ During tKe Hforihcoming . Anglican General Sylib'di.jneeting . it 'is" expected that there will be nine bishops m Aucklknd|f— Bißttpp^ Barry (Sydney), $ishop-> Harp^gf Ghysfchurph) |ne; president ft of the meeting, and Bishops Suter (Kelson/ Hadfield (Wellington), Nevslf f (Dunedin) Stewart. (iWaiapq, Napier), l (A"ucls- ) Cowielaricl), rielwyn (Melanesia), sjqd the bishop of Honolulu. 'The Synod should mnrkaii'impotitant- epoch m the tiistoryf of Christianity m Aus/ralia, ' > : : . 1 The .'police at Hill,' Victoria," have arrested a man named Cook on 'a charge of having murdered his wife, Maria Ooofc, and their child , Jn March 1874j Cook ; and his wife, with .their child, left Mount Gambier (South Australia) . for Horßham .(Victoria,). They were Been for the ; last time on the road betvyeen ?enola and EJdenhope by a carrier, 2nd 'nothing 'm ore was hoard ofeither husband, wife, or child until march, IBB4jiJ-exaotly t«jn yeari later— ' whed some human remains, 'which were, subsequently -, , indentifiodi a» thoie of, Marjft'pooji'and the t child, were found m the scrub near Ddonhode, An examination, showed that a ; murder had been corriinif ted, and Detective Nixon wWinstructedtb take' the 6as6 m hand. He gathered a quantity of information, ; wbioh pointed to Cook as the murderer.