COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 51, 2 March 1914, Page 8

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

[By Electric 'fETJJGiUFtf—• Ounraiattr LUnited I'beqs Association" ' Sydney, February 27.

The .Methodist Conference acknowledged a letter from Canon Garland, secretary of the New Zealand Bible-in-State-Sehools League, asking for the Conference's interest in the w<>l'l>. It was moved aiiij a{|r'ee*l that the Conference heard with interest of tIW moveirlent going o'n in Victoria and New Zealand to secure the advantages already possessed by New South Wales on direct religious teaching and Bible lessons under the State system of public instruction, and expresses the Hope that the movement in Victoria and New Zealand will specially achieve and be a complete succ&sb: Hobart, February 27. Everard. Goldsmid, Commissioner ol" the Supreme Court, Zeehan, committed suicide in painful circumstances. The police received a letter saying: "You'll find my corpse in the grandstand on the racecourse. Break the news gently to my wife." The police found tiie body and an empty bqttle labelled, cyanide. The deceased was 5 I years of age, and the son of the late Major-General Goldsmid, of the Indian Army. It is stated that deceased sustained a sunstroke in India.