CABLE NEWS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1712, 6 February 1895, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

EDUCATION WITHOUT RELIGION.

THE EXAMPLE OF VICTORIA.

WHAT THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY SAYS.

- LondonV February?. The Primate of Ail-England (Dr Benson), speaking at Canterbury, referred to some of tHe. published statistics in Victoria with regard to crime, and stated that the absence of religious teaching in the State schools in Victoria was to his mind responsible for the great increase in juvenile crime. The The policy of not permitting religious teaching was, he thought, ridiculous, if n >t dreadful. THE STALLION CARBINE PURCHASED BY THE DUKE OF PORTLAND FOR 13,000 GUINEAS. Melbourne, February 2. Negotiations have been completed, through cable, for the purchase of the stallion Carbine (by Musket—Mersey) by the Duke, of Portland for 13,000 guineas. - COREAN WAR . TEN WARSHIPS CAPTURED ', v London, February 3. The Yokohama correspondent of the News Agency wires that it is officially announced that on the exchange of credentials the powers given to the Chinese envoys to treat for peace were found to be utterly defective, and the Japanese Government declined to enter into negotiations with them. The envoys depart to-morrow under the protection of the Japanese authorities. . Shanghai, February 3. It is reported that the Japanese captured 10 of the Chinese warships at Weihaiwei, and in the attack lost two of her war vessels, which were sunk.* SHOCKING MURDER. ' A BRUTAL MOTHER Melbourne, February, 4. Harriet Tyripet has been arrested for the murder of her infant at Launceston, where she was living with a Chinamen. She laid the child’s head on a block and deliberately chopped it off with an axe. y ' She crossed the crime, stating that a resistless impulse moved her to commit murder. She is believed to be insane.

The woman is well connected in England, and has been in the receipt of considerable sums of money from time to time, but persistently led a vagrant life.