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BY THE . S.S. " WONGA WONGA." ! ,*» SPECIAL OVERLAND TELE--9 GRAM. Auckland, May 16. The WongaWonga arrived at 2 p,m. today ; she left Honolulu on the 29th, waiting three days for the steamer Ajax. She brings no English mail. She has seven passengers, and a general cargo. San Francisco, April 17th.— Anarchy in France still continues. The Government troops carried Fort De Neuilly on April 7th with great slaughter. The rebels on the Bth kept constantly firing shells into Paris. On April 9th, there was desperate fighting around the city. A party of conciliation has been redoubling their efforts. On the same day there was a great cannonading. The Champs Elysees was being dei serted owing to a number of shells falliing into the City. London, April 10.— The Church Noire Dame, Paris, has been sacked. i The G-overnmental batteries made a partial breach in the fortifications yesterday. ! Paris, April 10. — The Conciergeries I are filled both with priests and nuns, arrested on warrants calling them citizens and styling them servants of a person called God. The Archbishop was stripped naked and hound to a pillar, scourged, and mocked for hours by a band of ferocious Reds. Paris, April 11. — The Commune (insurgents) are barricading every street, and they have more than 200,000 desperate men under command. The insurgents demand one million, or they will lull the Archbishop of Paris. The insurgents took away the plate of the foreign office. The iron clad fleet of the Seine is at I Paris. An attack is imminent. The " Siecle " and " Temps '' newspapers have been suppressed. 1 Berlin, April 12.— The official organ states that Germany will only interfere 1 in France to collect the indemnity. I Paris, April 12. — Parisian women have been invited to join in the defence. 1 Paris, April 19, via London. — Loud uninterrupted cannonading has been kept up since last evening between ! Chantillon and southern forts. London, April 12. — Napoleon is seriously ill at Chiselhurst. London, April 12.— "Times "special I correspondent says that a column of insurgents advanced on Clamart unopposed. Tlr-ers will not take decisive action till 50,000 men are added to his army. Versailles, April 13.— Delegates from a 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 the Place Vendoine. London, April 14. — The insurgents are occupying Neuilly. There is a report of treachery on the part of the insurgent commanders. Great damage is being done in Paris from the shells. The insurgents are said to have taken 2000 prisoners at Villiers. Paris, April 17. — Shells and bullets I are falling iv the streets of Paris. Considerable numbers are demanding passports to leave the city. The I streets leading from Fort Maillot are in ruins. A terrible cannonade was kept up last night. The Government troops were repulsed. The delegates of the Commune took an inventory of all the objects of value in the Paris churches. A number of manufacturers have been arrested by order of the Commune, and manufactories closed, in order to force workmen to join the forces. The price of fresh meat is doubled. A prominent American banker has offered to buy the column in Place Vendome, and take it to the Central Park, New York.
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Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3203, 19 May 1871, Page 2
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