FROM THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam " MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1863.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19020, 16 November 1923, Page 6

FROM THE Otago Daily Times. "Inveniam viam aut faciam " MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1863.

SIXTY YEARS AGO.

FIFTEEN DAYS' LATER ENGLISH NEWS. ARRIVAL OF THE HIMALAYA, STEAM TROOP SHIP, AT MELBOURNE. (From the Argus, November 3.) Her Majesty's troopship, Himalaya, arrived in the Bay early yesterday afternoon, with troops on board for Auckland, and fifteen days' later news from England. The Himalaya proceeds to New Zealand as soon as she coals. ... LONDON, September 10th. Earl Russell has received the freedom of the burgh of Dundee. In his speech he stated that the Government were resolved to preservo the strictest neutrality with reference to American affairs. Fort Sumter is reduced to ruins, and Charleston bombarded with destructive effect. The Confederates still defend the city. The draft has been completed in New York. The Confederates have enforced the conscription of all men between sixteen and sixty, and have called out half a million of negroes, promising them their freedom and a grant of land at the end of the war. The Confederate army, under Leo. is now 150,000 strong. He was meditating a descent upon Washington. The Federals were suffering from typhoid fever. The Federal Government has erected, within forty-five miles of Montreal, a new fort, baviruj barrack accommodation capable of holding SOW men and containing supplies for 100,000 men. Grand Duke Maximilian has determined to accept the throne of Mexico. The Poles continue to win isolated successes, and to maintain their influence in Warsaw. The owners of the American ship Nord, destroyed by the Alabama, have made a claim on the British Government for 80,000 dollars by way of reparation. . . .