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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 233, 30 September 1881, Page 2

The Cotopaxi's mails wera delivered in England 31 J days from Adelaide. The Fiji Times says :— -Much speculation was aroused on the beach, when a smartlooking steamer, of larga burthen, evidently a stranger, was see* approaching the harbor. The mjstery was soon cleared up, and it w»e learnt that our latest visitor is the Wanderer, a fine steam yacht of some 800 toas, the property of Mr Lambart, a member of the Boyal Yacht Squadron, who, with his family, is on an extended cruise round the South American coast, and through the Pacific. Tho Waniarer left Cowes, Itle of Wight, over 12 months ago, and having viiited the Brazils, passad through the Straits of Magellan to the coast of Chile and Peru, and from thenoe to the Pacific, calling at Otaheite, the Marquesas Islands, and Tongatabu. She carries a fine crew of about sixty mea all teld, who are dressed in orthodox man-of-war garb, and is armed with two twelve-pounder muzt't-loading Armstrong guns, and two Nordenfeldts , an improvement om the Galling gun, besides a suitable supply of small arms. A Chicago telegram of tho 27th August says :— A gre»t fire broke out about 8 o'clock this evening in the packing establishment of John D Hately, which bad not been extinguished at midnight, at which time all the engines in that section of the city were working on it, being greatly impeded in their efforts by the scarcity of water. Few facts are learned aa yet, but it is known that 450,000 pounds of bacon *nd a large quantity of lard and provisions wore stored in the warehouse and will be completely destroyed. A rumor comes over the telephone that i several persons ere killed. The loss will possibly reach a million dollars. A Manaia correspondent of the Patea Mail writes : — " All the pans on the Plains have been deserted, only the old and decrepit people being left behind. It is also reported t'uat the pahs along the coast between here and Patea have been left in the same way. I can persoaally state that natives from nearly all the up-river Wangaaui settlements, Wangaehu, Waitotara, and all the intermediate settlements from latea to Wanganui, are at Parihaka, and I am cred'oly in formed that a very large number of Waikato men are amongst Te Whiti's followers. If mischief is meant, he has a very strong band to tight for him. He is known also to have provisions in store sufficient to last his people a long time, and plenty of moaey tn secure further supplies j so thafc if ho wished he