AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 95, 22 April 1912, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(Received 22, 9.10 a.m.) Sydney, April 22. Archbishop Kelly has hceu invested vyith the pallium, the symbol of. the fullness of ecclesiastical jurisdiction; Archbishop Carr, Melbourne, was tlie CoinmissariiiG. Dr Mawson’s Aurora sails early hr May for a six weeks’ cruisp on the sub-Antarctic to carry out a series of soundings and dredgings of the unknown , Seas between Tasmania and Antarctica, and to study currents and drifts of icebergs. Mr Edgar Waite, Curator of the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, accompanies them. (Received 22, 10.30 a.m.) Sydney, April 22. Sailed: Aorangi, 6 p.m. Saturday. A mysterious-'death of a young woman has occurred. Clarice Barker was walking homo to Globe in company with William Gilchrist when two men accosted them. One disked Gilchrist what ho was doing with his wife. Ho replied that he did not know she was married, Barker proceeding with the strangers. Gilchrist watched and saw them stop outside a vacant allotment. The woman later climbed a fence and walked off hi flic darkness. A few minutes afterwards one of the men followed, quickly reappeared, spoke to his companion and both hurried away. Gilchrist went in search of Barker and found her dead body at the bottom of a dry stormwater channel. The only mark of violence was a fractured wrist. Dr Cleary, Bishop of Auckland, at the opening of St. Mary’s primary school, spoke of militant irreligion and declared that the great battleground of the future would be the schools. Already the advance guards of irreligion were attacking Europe. If they could keep the children within the ranks of the Church they would hand to future generations a priceless asset. Melbourne, April 22. Arrived: Moeraki, Saturday. Carl Wckeverth, a 14 year old boy. committed suicide by hanging at Geelong. The cause is unknown.