AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 159, 26 June 1908, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

THE VICTORIAN TRAGEDY. Received 2Uth, 12.42 a.m. : Melbourne, June 25. Pincombe, who shot Robinson, the lay preacher, has succumbed to his wounds. "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE."

Sydney, June 25. 11l reply to a cablegram the Christian Science authorities here have been advised that the legality of practisi ii(g: Christian Science was not the issue liji the Raisler qise in America, in whicW Jieavy damages were awarded against a doctor uf t'ie sect. The charge was one of irregular medical practice. INTENSE COLD IN NEW SOUTH r WALES. ' Sydney, June 25. It is intensely cold. There are stiff frosts. ,Nirio inches of snow are on the ground at. Bomballa. The mail coach is snowbound there.

Received 20th, 12,42 a.m. Sydney, June 25. There is no abatement of the cold snap. MOTOR .BOAT BLOWN TO SEA. Sydney, June 25. A m'Otor boat with two men named Jordan and Sutherland on board wa.S blown- out to sen at Woolgobla. It ii Reared that she has been lost. DIPHTHERIA IN' MELBOURNE,

Melbourne, June 25. There is an epidemic of diphtheria in the city. Two hundred and thirty cases have been treated since the beginning of March. A DEMENTED MOTHER. London, June 25; , The bodies of Mrs. Sulman und her two children were found in the river at Footscray. The woman hud suffered from despondency since the hirth of her baby, and it is supposed that she threw herself and Her children into the water.