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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 61, 15 March 1869, Page 3

Acclimatization. — The whitebait forwarded to Hobart Town, in charge of Captain Thomson, ofcthe Southern Cross, have, we are informed, reached their des- ' tinatiou iv a lively and healthy conditiou, and with a loss of only three fish out of about 150. The apparatus employed for their transit was similar. to that, used four years ago by Mr. Johnson, in the attempted introduction to this province of salmon aud trout from England. It consisted of a wooden tank fitted with a perforated slate division, and a false bottom of the same materia). Both are so contrived as to cause by every motion of the vessel a contiuued circulation of aeration of the water, whilst the outlet, being from the bottom, provided for the easy removal of deleterious deposits. The credit of this successful exportation is, however, due iv a great measure to the care taken in the experiment by Captain Thomson. Bushranging is not extinct in the Bathurst district. Two bushrangers have bailed up Mr Thomas Kite, a very wealthy old gentleman, near Moloug. They took from him his buggy and horse.

Why do cabmen prefer tall ladies to short ones ? — Because the higher the fair the better they like it. I Mazeppa is stated to have been much attached to his horse. If we were to ' give the devil his due,' what would become of us ? Why is the rail-way locomotive so easily controlled by a switch? Because it has a tender behind. What man waxes stronger every day? A shoemaker. Where is money first meutioued in the Bible? Where the dove brought the green back to Noah.