EXTRACTS FROM PUNCH.

Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 36, 11 April 1844, Page 3

EXTRACTS FROM PUNCH.

GRAVESEND, (from oub own correspondent.) This delightful watering place is filled with beauty and fashion, there being lots of large curls and small bonnets in eveiy portion of the town and neighbourhood. We understand it is in contemplation to convert the mud on tbe banks of the river into sand, in order that the idea of the sea-side may be realised at far as possible; Two donkey-cart loads have already been laid down by way ofiexperiment, and the spot on which they were thrown was literally thtonged with pedestrians. The only difficulty likely to arise is that the tide washes the sand away and leaves the mud just as usual. The Money Market.—The scarcity of money is frightful. As much as an hundred per cent, to be paid in advance, has been asked upon bills; bit we ‘have not heard of any one having given it. There .was an immense run for gold, but no one got any, and the whole of the transactions of the day were done in copper. An influential party created some sensation by coming into the market late in the afteruoon, just before the close of busi* ness, with half-a-crown ; but it was found, on enquiry, to be a bad one. It is expected that if tho dearth of money continues aoother week, buttons must be resorted to. A party, whose transactions are known to be large, succeeded in settling bis ao counts with the Bulls, by means of postage-stamps J an arrangement of which the Bears will probably take advantage. The report is spread in the German States, that Queen Victoria of England intends paying a visit to her relations in Germany.