INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 58, 6 February 1877, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

[Froii the Press Agency]. a&uCKLAND, February 3. About twenty-five hags of newspapers :£or New Zealand were destroyed in the Tailway on the Ohio line. The van containing them was burnt. No letters -are missing. Grahamstown, February 3. The man Rodgers alias Armstrong, was ■charged in the Resident Mrgistrate's Court / this morning with having about the 20th March, 1868, murdered one William Mathers alias Red Bill. Accused was remanded from Wangarei, where he had given himself up to the Constable as the murderer of Red Bill, but he subsequently denied the truth of the statement. Red Bill was found dead in a deserted shaft in Karaha about the date mentioned above. 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 goldfields. He was remanded. Masterton, February 3. Mr. Greening, the driver of one of Hastwell's Wairarapa coaches, and well known in Canterbury, was last night presented with two testimonials and a purse of £52. A large crowd was present. Wellington, February 3. It rained heavily the greater part of last night, and is raining still, the weather "being thick and unpromising. There is no likelihood of the English cricketers playing to-day, as the Wellington has not yet arrived from Picton. February 4. About half-past 11 last night the rain, again came on very heavily, and poured in torrents all night, and it has been raining all day without intermission. Unless the weather holds up soon, and a strong wind sets in, cricket with the All-England jjleven will be almost impossible tomorrow. Dunedin, February 2. Tweniy-two cricketers will probably play the All-England Eleven at Dunedin. The Match Committee has already selected Millington and Nichols (Oamaru), Downes (Lawrence), and Everest (Palmerston); and 24 others have been chosen to practice for the event. Oamaru, February 4. The continued rain is causing very serious damage to the crops.

(from times own corespondent.) Wellington, February 3. ARRIVALOF THE ENGLISH CRICKETERS IN WELLINGTON. The English Eleven arrived by the Wellington at 4.30 to-day, after a smooth passage down. It was raining and blowing when they landed, ttnd a large crowd had assembled on the wharf, a band was playing, and guns were fired at intervals. The match was to have been commenced to-day, but has been postponed till Monday.