TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Inangahua Times, Volume III, Issue 73, 5 February 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

[BY ELECTBIC TELEGRAPH.] [PBB PBEB3 ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, February 3. r Curtin on Thursday seat foe his fiister, whoa he expressed a desire that after his execution the body should be handed over to his friends for burial, instead of being interred in the gaol yard. His representations were forwarded to the Governor by Mr Bees. About twenty-five bags of News* papers for New Zealand were destroyed in the railway accident on the Obiki line. The van containing them, was burnt. No letters are missing. . Gbahamstown. A man named Rogers, alias Aimstrong, was charged in the Resident Magistrate's Court, this morning, with having about the 20th of March 1868 murdered one William Matthews, alias Bed Bill. Accused was remanded from Wangarei where he had given himself up to a constable *s the nun* dererefßedßill; but he subsequently denied the truth of the statement Bed Bill was found dead in a deserted shaft in Kafcarara about the lime men* tioned. The prisoner appears to be eccentric! if not insane. He was recognised by several persons in Court as having been amongst the pioneers of the Thames goldfieldfl. He was re« manded.