AUSTRALIAN HEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVII, Issue 235, 4 October 1913, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN HEWS.

[Press AssociA?i9N-J BRITISH ! viewedf *'saidi that they ' aSpßw'^e inadequacy of the time devotea! to; seeing th© colonies. They; felt that they :Had only, touched the ir-inge'pf things? ; Henhougjht' that^he party* was alto* { gethei;-too* big and. unweildy, though ' tt%as managed by the authorities in a Wonderful manner. 4 Half a 'dc&eri male members -would have sufficed. 'Furthermore, tliey should-; havej cut out South Africa- and Canada, which were fairly accessible from ; England, and devoted the extra time to> x Australia. ~ ~- t ' -p .' v ANOTHER I^RAGEDY. YSYDNEY;, 6,ct.,,4. A tragedy is reported from Ballina.' John Rankinj on returning-Mme from a meeting, discovei'ed his hduse locked. Oil forcing an entrance he found his wife in ?bed, with a thirteen -months' old child on the floor.* .Their*.throats were cut, and both were dead. A "child was also found with■:• iio. ; headi ap-. parently struck by a ;> hammer,"lying ■'near: . ■ . ' • ■■*- -■--;■.",- ---. ! A GRUESOME DISCOVERY. * . PERTH, Oct. 4. Skeletons of two men, with a revolver and rifle alongside,- and each skull pierced by a bullet hole, were ■found in the Goscoyne district. Apparently they had been dead! for a year. It is supposed that they were prospectors, who, being bushed, ended [a fruitless struggle by placing their ! weapons in their mouths and discharging them. *T BOATING FATALITY. v . LAUNCESTON, Oct. 4. Three boys named Lee, Betts,' and Fawkner were boating in the-river. On being carried' seaward they , attempted to swim ashore, but were drowned. .