AUSTRALIAN.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9315, 16 January 1896, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF A PROFESSOR. Sydney, January 15. Mr Henry Arnold Tubbs, Professor of Classics at the Auckland University, who arrived by ihe "Waihora, visited Penrith and thence went to a place named Wallace, where he called at the house of a resident, and told the inmates he had been out all night, and had tried to kill himself by inflicting stabs in the vicinity of his heart. A doctor was called in, and he dressed the wounds, which are not of a serious nature. Mr Tubbs was to have been married to-day. He will be charged with attempted suicide. DIABOLICAL MURDERS. Dr. Lamb, writing from New Hebrides, describes the diabolical murder of boys belonging to the mission station. The method pursued is to garrotte the victim and then, when he is unconscious, lay him on his face and twist his neckfrom behind sufficiently to crush the larynx without dislocating the cervical vertebrae. The victim recovers consciousness, but is unable to speak, and dies within twenty-four hours from effusion of blood from the spine into the cranium and lungs, without being able to indicate his murderer. THE MEDICAL CONFERENCE. Brisbane, January 15. Dr. Love represents the colony at the Medical Conference in New Zealand, and will make enquiries in that colony into matters dealing with the public health. WATER Perth, January 15. The Government has decided to spend £100,000 in sinking well tanks in the chief centres on the Coolgardie goldfields.