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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 120, 1 June 1863, Page 3

A frightful conflict has taken place on the river, olt Blackball. The Peruvian corvette Arica is fitting out in the West India docks. The greater part of her crew —half of them sailors and half soldiers—is on i hoard £the hulk Venus in the river. On Thursday, March ID, the soldiers were on shore on leave, and a large number of them got drunk. When they returned on hoard they refused to obey orders, and the sailors were called upon to secure the most disorderly, and clear the decks. Then commenced a fearful fight. Eventually, however, the soldiers were driven between decks, and there kept the soldiers at hay. The Captain was sent for, and on his arrival, leaped cutlass in hand, among the mutineers, and was followed by the sailors. A hand-to-hand encounter ensued, which lasted fur some time, but finally the mutiny was quelled. During the fight one of the officers appears to have been thrown through a port into the river, where he was drowned. Another, a midshipman, who was ill in the cabin, died through the excitement. Two of the soldiers were found dead on the deck ; others were fearfully hurt, and some are supposed to have been drowned. The ringleaders wore removed on shore. The mutiny is now (March 23) proved to have been attended with the loss of six lives at least. A wounded soldier died on March 22, and others remain in a precarious condition. Troops for New Zealand.— The' Home News says:—The 2nd battalion 18th” regiment (Itoyal Irish) under the command of Lieut.-Col. Chapman, was officially 'inspected at Parkhurst, Isle of Wight, by MajorGeneral Loi’d W. Panlet, C. 8., the general officer commanding the district, preparatory to the departure of the regiment from England on foreign service. The ships Elizabeth Ann Bright and Norwood will embark the regiment for New Zealand about the end of the present week. The Nj:w Zealand Press. —There fare now no less than sis daily newspapers published in this colony : namely the Daily Times, the Telegraph, and the Droning Nctcs, in Dunedin ; the Southern Cross, and I ew-Zealander, in Auckland ; and the Press, in Christchurch. We are not quite certain but that, in addition to these, there is a small daily paper published at the Dunstan Diggings. Of these, several are old established journals, but they all date their daily issue within the last fifteen mouths, and excepting the Otago Daily Times and Telegraph, their publication is of quite recent date. The newspapers published in New Zealand now number twenty-three, besides those published at the Otago diggings, concerning which wo have no, accurate knowledge. Auckland has three papers, two daily and one weekly ; Taranaki, two weekly; Ltawko’s Day, two semi-weekly ; Wellington, one semi-weekly, and two three times a week; and Wanganui, one weekly. Nelson has two semiweekly papers ; Marlborough, one weekly ; Canterbury, one daily, and two semi-weekly • Otago, three daily and one weekly ; and Southland, two weekly.— Nelson Examiner , April 18.