AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Issue I, 24 June 1864, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

*\Ve extras tlio following telegrams from the Sydney s Punch of the 27th uK.: — Melbourne, 20th Mav. The voting salmon a*v all alive and kicking—if the expression maybe permitted—fit nnv rate they wan . their tnils in a inn?! and lu'reeablf* manner. Several of the oldest are nearly hr»if an inch long, and tlicir hc;>ds can be easily distinguished from their tails by the naked eye. Xone of the fish have been -weighed as yet : but it is expected they will shortly provide themselves with scales. Mr. VVilson has taken a sleeping apartment close to the icehouse, and is understood to be called at any hour of the ni«jht when a fresh eccer displays of unwonted animation. or "when any one of the finny celebrities mnv be at. all discomposed. The Yan Yean embankment has not given way vet; Inii people residing in the lower portions of the eitv have he»-n observed moving some sugar so it would hardlv fair to say that no apprehension exists on the subject 1 . A citizen of previous! v irreproaehable character has been fined by the mairistratns for shaving a customer on a Sundav. A sailor, who had entered the criminal's shop for the same unlawful object of getting his face clean, was cautioned by a constable and allowed to depart and get legally drunk with a dirty chin. Adelaide, 2Gth May. Three strangers have ariived, but the nature of their business hrs not transpired. Tn one of our leading thoroughfares, to-day, a boy verv imprudently shied his cabbage-tree hat at a horse that was passing. The horse immediately shied at the hat, and then ran away. The boy also ran away —and public opinion runs very strongly on the subject. Operations in flour are limited. A small parcel, nerirl v half a bus, slightly sour, lias been taken off by a hill-sticker. (Gardiner's acquittal excites astonishment—but then it inusi be remembered that it takes very little to astonish the people here.