AUSTRALIA.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5464, 16 January 1896, Page 3

AUSTRALIA.

/ [Special to Press Association.] A DIABOLICAL MURDER. BRISBANE, Jan. 15. Dr Lamb, writing from the New Hebrides, describes the diabolical murder of a boy belonging to the Mission Station. The method pursvied is to garrot the victim, and then. when he is unconscious, lay him on his face and twist his neck from behind sufficiently to crush the larynx without dislocating the cervical vertebrte. The victim recovers consciousness, but is unable to speak and dies within twentyfour hours from effusion of blood from the spine into the cranium and lungs, without being able to indicate the murderer. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. ■ Henry Arnold Tubbs, professor of classics at Auckland University, who arrived by the Waihora, visited Penrith, and thence went to a place named Wallace, where he called at the house of a resident and told the inmates that he had been: out all night 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. Professor Tubbs was to have been married to-day. He will be charged with attempted suicide. A COOLGARDIE TRAGEDY. PERTH, Jan. 16. A, murder is reported from the Afghan camp at Coolgardie, Tagli Mahomet, a wellknown merchant, having /been skotcLead by a countryman while at prayers. The supposed cause of the crime is an old grudge. The murderer walked to town 'and surrendered himself, stating that he was satisfied. ■ WESTERN AUSTRALIA. The Premier was entertained at a banquet by the residents bf Perth, in recog-; nition of his services to the colony. In reply to a toast he said that from being; practically unknown, \ Western Australia; had become one of the most flourishing' parts of the Queen's doiniriions. Since'tn'e discovery of gold/ in 1876 it had exported; gold worth .£2,600,006.' ... ' -r