The ship will be fumigated and the cargo put m lighters. The fault of the disease lies with the home clearing officers. Thirteen cases of fever were sent out of the depot at Plymouth a day before the Mongol's. passengers came on board, and a day after two families were sent ashore, having been ill and were still weak from the effects of fever. There are four cases now under treat ment. The passengers ai'e : — lo| adults for Otago ; 71 for Lyttelton ; 91 for Wellington, and 72£ for Auckland. The following are items per papers by the Mongol. Henry Harrison, sculptor, is executing a bust of the Claimant m marble. A large army conscription is taking place m Russia and Poland. The Danes addressed a petition to the King of Sweden to allow them to con struct a tunnel under the Sound. A Kaffir war has broken out m Natal. The first break occurred through a chief refusing to register some firearms. He was followed by a detachment of Carabineers, who were surrounded by Kaffirs m the bush, and three killed, one being the son of the Colonial Secretary, the Hon. Major Erskine. In a subse quent encounter 90 Kaffirs were said to be shot. The Scimitar, which sailed same day as the Mongol is crowded with passen gers. The vessel had the seeds of sick ness on board when she left. Great activity prevails m German arsenals. The guards are being rapidly supplied with the new mauson arm. New field pieces also are being turned out. In a recent case the Lord Justice said the manner m which the English wit nesses were browbeaten by lawyers was simply disgraceful. Port Chalmers, Friday Evening. Arrived Mongol, s.s., forty-nine and a half days from land to land. The vessel is m quarantine. Sixteen deaths occurred on the voyage, out of sixty-seven cases of sickness. There were four deaths from measles, five deaths from scarlet fever, five deaths from bronchitis, one death from diarrhoea, one from" inanition, one from sunstroke, and one from ulcer. The diseases have been confined to one com partment — amongst married people— and they broke out shortly after the ship left England. The single men and women are quite free from disease. The Mongol btings a mail for Wellington only, which has been taken out and fumigated. 