SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 724, 6 February 1877, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Auckland, last nisjht. THE MURDERER OrjRTIN. Answers have been received to a tele- ' grunt sent b/ Messrs Macfarlane and S wanton asking a reprieve for Curlin. The Minister of Justice holds out no hope. The Rev Mr Webb of Sydney tele graphed accepting care of Baptist Church in Auckland. Henry Collins, bush contractor, -was remanded on a charge of forging a cheque for &&,■ 6ign«*d Coombes and Daldy. THE SPARROWS. A telegram from Waiwera to-day says, that of eleven sparrows shot by order of the Acclimatisation Society only tbe crops of two contained any «ign of caterpil ars. One was empty, All the rest were gorged with fruit and grain. The Society reports 10,000 young flalmen place 1 in the Waikato river ; and 3,000 at Tuakau ; and forty starlings liberated in Waikato. . Bully Hayes, tho South ssa pirate, is reported at Samoa. The firing te test ! Soall's system of targets, resulted in 259 points in favour of Soall. Dunedin, last ni»ht. Vincent Pyke wot hung in effigy for giving adelibcrative.vote in favour of Cromwell as a county town and then his casting vote for Clyde. Blenheim, last night. A flood washed away Dudson'a Btablcs and inundated the town. Wellington, last night, i A drenohing rain pretented the pricket match from commenting until late in the afternoon. The Wellington twenty-**© were sent to the wickets.