The Melbourne correspondent of the Otago Daily Tivies says : — " Great exoitement has beon caused by the arrival in this port of a real live Confederate sea captain, with a fine set of young fellows for hia officers, a crew of seventy men ready for anything, and a clipper Bhip, armed with eight genuiue Whifcwortliß of formidable dimeasions. The strauge ship, in commemo ration of an advantage gained by tho Southerners over the Federals in a valley of that name, ib called the Shenandoah, but- it is shrewdly sus pected that this id both figuratively and literally ngthing more than a noni de guerre, and that she ia tho famous Sea King, buiit in the Clyde, and sent out to Madeira, whore ahe recoived her armament, and waa handed over to Lieutenant Waddel, of the C. S. navy, her present com mander, who at once commenced his prescribed work of "destroying the maritime commerce oi" the enemy." So well has this work of destruction been carried out, that, although it iB only about threo months since the Shenandoah started on hor cruise, she haa already sent eight or nine Northern ships to their account, and bonded two or three for large sums. On the day subsequent, to her arrival here the oaptain jof tho Shenandoah applied to the Viotorian Government for per mission to remain in Hobson's Bay long enough to execute certain repairs required by his veasul, a request wiiich, after a-jiuc little hesitation, was

THE TARANAKI HERALD, MARCH 4, 1365.
ANOTHER GREAT FIRE IN DUNEDIN.
AUCKLAND.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN SHORTLAND STREET.
TWO HOTELS, FOUR BOARDING-HOUSES, AND TWELVE SHOPS DESTROYED.
