ARRIVAL of the WONGA WONGA AT AUCKLAND.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 116, 18 May 1871, Page 2

ARRIVAL of the WONGA WONGA AT AUCKLAND.

SEVEN DAYS LVTER ENGLISH NEWS. Tatjranga, May 18, 8. 10. a.m. The Wonga Wonga arrived at Aucklaud at 2 p.m. yesterday, having left Honolulu on the 29th April, after waiting three days for the Ajax. She brings no English mail. Seven passengers and general cargo. San Francisco, April 17- — Anarchy in France still continues. The Government troops carried Fort de Neuiliy on the 7th with great slaughter. On the Bth the rebels constantly fired shells into Paris. ..,.-, On the 9ih there was desperate fighting round the c\ty. The Party of Conciliation have been redoubling their efforts. On the same day there was great cannonading,, the Champs Elysees bein^ deserted owing to the number of shells failing into the <^yv. , ..-..,. ; London, April lb.~The church of; Notre Dame has been sacked. ; The Government batteries made a practicable breach in .the fortifications yesterday. . >„. x > ■ Paris, April 10.— The'Gonciergeries are filled with priests and nuns who have been arrested on warrants calling them "citizens styled servants of a person called : God." i: The Archbishop was stripped .naked,- bound to a; pillar and, Bcpureed, v and . mocked for hpurs, by a band of ferocious Ruils. '■'•''• ■''•' [ Paris, April 11.— The Commune (insurgents) are barricading every street. They have more than 1 200^000 desperate men under command. The insurgents demand : one mil lion ffrancsjj'or they will kill the , Archbishop of Paris. r .' '. (> .": M They have -taken away; the plate of the ! Foreign Office. — '■■■ ■.{T^ie v )it»nclad> r flaet;jof[tlje-|Sein^ js (at Paris. _ An att^clc is imniineat." ' ' " }i c fiThe SieclecAtid' Temps') newspapers have been suppressed.

Berlin, April 12. — The: official organ sjat.es that Germany^ will only interfere in France to. collect the; indemnity. ,Paris,; April 12.— The Parisian women have been' invited tojoin in the defence. Loud cannonading has been kept up since last evening, betwaA Chantillon and the southern forts, jjr London, April Ij^^Napoleoo is seriously ill at Chiselh^ret. The Times I special says that a column of insurgen^r. advanced on Clamant unopposed,/ Thierß will not take decisive dction till 50,000 men are added to his army. Versailles, April 13. — Delegates from the Party of Conciliation have returned to Paris. , The conditions of peace proposed by Thiers are that Paris should lay down her arms and then municipal franchise would be granted to the City. Paris, April , 13. — The Communists propose to demolish the column in Place Vendome. ■ . . • . "London, April 14.— The insurgents occupy Neuilly. There is a report of treachery on the part of the insurgent commanders. Great damage done in Paris from shells. Insurgents said to have taken 2000 prisoners at Villiers. Pacis, April 17. — Shells and bullets are falling in the streets of Paris. Crowds are demanding passports to leave the city. The streets leading from Porte Mailot are in ruins. Terrible cannonade kept up last night. Government troops repulsed. The delegates of the Commune took an iuventory of ! all objects of value in the Paris churches. A number of manufacturers have been arrested by order of the Commune, and the manufactories closed in order to force the workmen tojoin their forces. The price of fresh meat is doubled. A prorainenty^mtfican banker has offered to buy the Colqni<u*in the Place Vend orae, to take it to the Central Park, New York.