LATEST TELEGRAPHIC.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1262, 7 May 1896, Page 30

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC.

CuuiKTCJiuncH, May 5. Cardinal Moran, accompanied by Archbishops Carr and Redwood and Bishops Murray (of Maitlund), Grimes and Vordon (tho newly-consecrated Biihopof Dunedin), besides a number of priests from various parts of Australia and New Zealand, arrived from Dunedin by express to-night and receivod a hearty reception. At tho Roman Catholic Church, addresses wore presented to the Cardinal by tho clergy, laity and Hibernian Society, after which tho party -were entertained at supper. A triumphal atch was erected across Barbadoos street, and the church was decorated and the convent illuminated. At tho general meeting of the Canterbury Women's Institute, tho resolution of tho National Council of Women regarding tho right of a wife to demand a just sharo of her husband's earnings for her separate uso was endorsed. Auckland, May 5. Last night a determined attempt was mado to job tho Post Office at Cororaandel. Everything of value, including stamps, registered lotters and cash, had been locked up in a safe, to open which an unsuccessful but desperate attempt was mado in tho office. Packets of lotters wore torn open, but so far it is impossible to say if any wore taken. It appears an entrance was effected at tho back door, a pick being used to force tho door lock. Tho pick was found this morning behind a blacksmith's shop, with the point broken. Dunedin, May 5. An inquest was held to-day respecting the death of Robert Kirkwood, a carpmiter, who died two hours after a fill from a scaffolding at Herbert, Haynos and Co.'s new building. Tho evidence of William Lodge, a earpeute.r, who was working on I ho scaffolding at the time, was to the ell'ect that deceased, witnens, and two others who fell.pul up the scaffolding. The plank which broke was of Oregon pine, II inches by '■'> inches and 21 feet long. Tue sc iholding had been up for about a month, and there had been very much umro weight a\ ii "a former ' ecasion - I ban »I" a it Ir- !>••. Tho jury, alt. i- a. sit ■< '.. n-i irouciit returned' a verdhd lo the . IT--el that Iho deceased wa ; aocid.'iibill y t;*II •I, but that there was no evid •«< <• us lo tho leason why the c-eaffuldioy gave way. Tho jury could not any that theie was any blame attaching to anyone. The building, it may be stated, io being put up by day labour.

A young man named Midline! Cato, a rcCPDt arrival Irom England, was committed for trial to-day on charges of false protcnees. Tho ■ vidoece sho.ud that In; hud obtained jowellery, and had been representing himself as a member of the Gaiety Burlesque Company, lie had been befriended by Bishop Neville, and it was on the Bishop he gave the order when getting the jewellery. An older brother of the young man had brought loiters of introduction to the Bishop from a clergyman in Birkenhead, hit! then this young man tunud up unexpectedly. The father is said to bo in business as a stevedore at Birkenhead, anil a draft of .£2O was receivod by the older brother through the Bishop,