NEW ZEALAND : GENERAL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXV, Issue 52, 29 April 1898, Page 18

NEW ZEALAND : GENERAL.

We have received packets of used postage stamps for Father Kreyinborg's mission from " M.R.D." (E.deM.), "F.S.S." (Dunedin), Miss Maggie Butler (Park Hotel. Wellington), and Miss Delia Comber (Milton). Miss Butler also enclosed a postal note for 7s (id, which has been duly forwarded to Father Kreymborg. The following young- ladies, pupils of the Sisters of Mercy at Reefton, obtained the following marks at the London College theoretical examination ; — Maude Burke, 91 ; Martha Montieth. 82 ; Katie McNamara, 79. The two first mentioned obtained first class certificates. We Jearn with deep regret that the sacred vessels were stolen by burglars from St. MaryV, ChriHtehureb, on Monday night. The contribution boxes, which had not been opened for a long time, were also taken. They were supposed to contain a considerable sum of money. The sacred vessels were found smashed in an adjacent paddook. A fine setter dog belonging to the monastery was found poisoned on the previous day, which goes to show that the burglary was the work of an organised gang of thieves. _ Readers of the N.Z. Tablet wi!l readily recall the attitude which we ielt ourselves called upon to adopt regarding Lord Ranf urly's indiscreet utterances in Dunedin. We are pleased to be in a position to announce that our criticism of Lord Ranfurly's conduct has met with the approval not alone of the Catholic Press of the neighbouring colonies, but of the great secular dailies as well. Some of the Sydney papers have taken the matter up, and Lord Ranfurly's action has been the subject of severe comment in the Melbourne An/us, and, stranger still, in the columns of a paper so friendly to the Orange party as the Ayr. In every case our comments were extensively quoted. At the close of a severe castration to his Excellency, the Age of April 14th remarks : " After all, however, the action of the Catholic body in resenting what they consider to be an insult of the grossest kind may prove profitable to his Lordship if he continues in the colonial service, and is called upon to act in a similar capacity in other countries where, as in New Zealand, the political principles of the people are democratic, and where people can worship according to their convictions or inclinations, and still join in ' peace on earth, goodwill to men.' "