NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 9, 6 May 1896, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Auckland, May G

Mrs Stuart Menteath, wife of Mr Menteath, barrister, of Wellington, and a cousin to the Countess of Glasgow and of Major Elliott, died this morning. The remains are to be taken to Wellington on Thursday by the Mahinapua. Mr Menteith will be accompanied by Major Elliott. Last niglit a determined attempt ■was made to burglarise the Post-office at Coromandel. Everything of value, including stamps, registered letters, and cash was locked up in the safe, to open which an* unsuccessful but desperate attempt was made. In the office packets ofU-tters were torn open, but so far it is impossible to say if any were taken. It appears an entrance was effected by the back door a pick being used to force the lock. The pick was found this morning behind a blacksmith's shop with the point broken. Wellington, May 6.

R. H. Elliot, w ho ha* been prospecting the Tararua ranges for some months past, has procured gold-bearing stone 40 miles from Wellington. Mamyears ago he found a likely looking reef which he had no time to develop, and he has never been able to it since. In looking for it lie has come across nine other reefs all containing gold, and samples from these are now being tested. CiißisTciu'KCii, .May o. At a meeting of the executive of the Branner relief fund to-day Mr G. G. Stead, honorary treasurer, reported that £4770 was lying to the credit of the fund in the Union Bank. The Mayor and Mr G. G. Stead were appointed delegates to tke conference

convened by the Premier in Wellington to decide as to the disposal of the fund. A resolution was carried that it is desirable that the whole fund should lie applied to the relief of those who had suffered through the disaster. Cardinal Moran, accompanied by Archbishops Carr and Redwood, and Bishops Murray (of Maitland), Grimes, and Verdon (the newly-c-onsocrated Bishop of Dunedin). besides a number of priests from various pares of Australia and New Zealand, arrived by the express to-night and received a hearty reception at the Roman Catholic Church. A triumphal arch was erected over Barbadoes-street, the church decorated, and the convent illuminated. Dunedi.x, May G. At a meeting of the Dunedin Presbytery to-dav it was resolved to help in every possible way the association formed to secure religious instruction in State schools. The young man C'ato, committed for trial to-day on charges of false pretences. had been befriended by Bishop Neville, and it was on the Bishop he gave an order when getting the jewellery.