SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 188, 20 June 1864, Page 3

SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE.

Ykstkhdav afiernoon the s. s. ' Kangaroo' arrived in the Mauakau irom 2s'ev\ castle, and the mail having been brought into town immediately on its arrival by Mr. Urewer ot Her Majesty's Customs al Ouoliuii.ma, we were kindly placed by that gentleman i:.possession ot' tiles or" the Sydney papers to the tilti inst. The principal item of intelligence _is the account of tiie wreck of the ship ■Ail Serene.' The ' All .Serene," owiie.i by Mr. .1. Malcolm, of Sydnvy, was bound from Vancouver"* island to Sydney with a ear-o of lumber, and was ctiug;it in a hurricane when in Hie latitude of the Feegee. Islands and became waterlogged and heeled over, tiie crew took to the rising, several were washed away, but the the remainJor returned to ihe deck°to undergo the far greater horrors of famine. Ultimately tiie survivors of the crew, reached one of the L'Vegee islands, having sutlercd most fearful hardships. We rcret to have to draw attention lo a paragraph which appears in our shipping columns.

by which it will be seen that the Auckland' barque ' JTovelty,' on her last voyage to , Sydney, was spoken in a leaky condition on. the New Zealand coast, aud had not arrived. in Sydney by the 6th hist. (It " ;.;yiiiiey news, there is but little. The trial of (inr.lii.. r on a second charge, for li!_ ■. -• ._. lobbc-ry under arms, was still proceeding. The birlhday balis, both in Sydney and Melbourne, liad been splendid affaire; about fifteen hundred attended the ball at Cxovernment House, Melbourne, aud though crowded, it was a great success. The Victorian Parliament had been prorogued on (ho :2nd; the Governor in his speech, congratulated the Assembly on the state of the revenue. A general election will take place, and the Assembly will bo called together early for the sake of passing the estimates, before January neit. Plouro-pemimonia is already beginning to fulfil the prophecy concerning it, that its attacks would be less and less felt each year from its commencement. "We observe that the ' Charlotte Andrews,' the 'Louis and Miriam.' and the 'Alice Cameron, ' arc ou the berth for Auckland— the ' Charlotte ' being announced to clear on the u'th. Our telegrams and mercantile reports, will be found elsewhere.