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Hawke's Bay Times, 25 October 1861, Page 1

ARRIVAL OP THE “Wonga Wonga” from Otago. AT WELLINGTON. ENGLISH NEWS TO AUGUST 26. The s.s. Wonga Wonga, Capt. Ecrmcr, arrived, in Wellington hai-bor, from .Otago via Lyttelton, on Friday last. She left Otago on Tuesday last, arrived at Lyttelton on the following day, left again on the afternoon of Thursday, and arrived here as above.

The- Wonga Wonga took 115 passengers from Otago, 70 of which were for Lyttelton, and the remainder for Wellington.

The s.s. Oscar arrived at Port Chalmers on the 14th inst., from Melbourne bringing the Otago European mail of August, and by this opportunity we have received the Home Hews of the 26th August. This mail has been received in less time than any previous one—it having arrived in Otago in the incredibly short space of 49 days, the news being only 53 days old on its arrival hero. -The principal item of intelligence brought by the English Mail appears to be the account of another engagement between’the Northern and Southern States, which resulted in the defeat of the Northerners.

The last reports of the Wool market were more favorable, the prospect of a good harvest appears to have stimulated the market and produced a greater competition among buyers, and prices had recovered full/ l|d. per lb. on the average. Philip Edmund Wodohouse, Esq., C. L., late Governor of British Guiana, is to succeed Sir George Grey at the Capo of Good Hope, and Colonel Gore Browne, C. 8., is to be succeed Sir Henry E. P. Young in Tasmania. A serious railway accident occurred on the 25th August on the Brighton and Loudon line, an excursion train being run into by a parlia-mentary-train, by which 23 persons were killed. Parliament was prorogued on the Gth August and/ho ; Quccn‘s speech consisted of a series of agreeable and congratulatory paragraphs. European news is almost at a stand still. A stupendous design for the invasion of Naples and Sicily by the partisans of Francis 11. is stated to have been lately detected. From the Otago Witness, of the 12th inst., we learn that a serious accident occurred at Port Chalmers on the 11th inst., which might have resultedl in most disastrous consequences. It appears that the steamer Kemhla which had cleared for Australia with 7,000 ounces of gold, was run into by the steamer Lyttelton, as she was about to leave the port, and was cut down to the water’s edge ; receiving such injuries as to render it necessary to lay her on the beach at Port Chalmers, and to return her gold to town. This accident is attributed to great carelessness on the part of those in command of the Lyttelton.

The schooners Petrel and Heron arrived at Otago from Wanganui on Monday last. The news from the diggings continues about the the same as usual, no further discoveries of payable