TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.
[from our morning contemporaries], Auckland, Jauuary 6. The latest telegrams from Alexandra via the Thames, state tliafc the forces under Tapihana and Whitiora have joined, and are. near Rapu. They" have sent a letter to Colonel Lyon, saying, " You are now on tapu ground. Go to Mangawhiri." A second warning has been sent, saying, "The road is now closed ; the messenger is not to return." •In another message, Taoibana states that; the- King does not recognise any other boundary than Mangawhiri; he did not recognise tbe confiscation. Colonel Lyon is reinforced. The settlers' families are. in a redoubt at Orakau which is garrisoned. CHRtSTCHURCH, Monday night. A diabolical murder was : committed this afternoon, by a colored man named Cedeno, who is footman to tbe Hon. Mr. Robiusou. During the day, several of the servant-maids, had been chaffing' him. about his approaching marriage} ** when he attacked one with a table knife, . cutting her severel}*", but she managed to escape. Tho infuriated man then rushed at another servant, and pursuing her into the drawiug-room, where she stumbled, he immediately stabbed her to the heart, in the presence of Mrs. Robinson and Mrs. Campbell, who were in the room, but could-not pi-event him.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 8, 10 January 1871, Page 2
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