SYDNEY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 25, 29 January 1872, Page 2

SYDNEY.

Mr. Yogel and Mr. Webb leave fo Melbourne next week in connection with the establishment of" the Cajifornian line. The weather is fearfully hot. There were six cases of sunsfroke at Murundi in one day, all of them fatal. The New Zealand loan of £66,000 was placed on the 18th at 102. The Chamber of Commerce has passed a resolution recommending the Government to subsidise Webb's line as it proposed to do Hall's. The Government is not dispose! to make the promise. Wool sales firmer. The New Guinea expedition has sailed.

,y>— v^- r ,-■.-•-.-..■ - ■ -. . — .- ■ The new lunatic asylum at Kew, near Melbourne, is out of the builders' hands. Its total cost will be about £150,000. Hobaut Tovv'N is suffering from a plague of auonymous letters of a villainous character. Australia, during the first nine months ' of last yesr, absorbed twenty-two millions of Eoglish-raanufactured cotton goods. A Company is to be formed in Melbourne to build a new opera house, the plans for which are already prepared, and are said to be *' truly magnificent." The New South Wales Government threatens to dismiss any goldfields official having an interest in mines or mining companies. Intelligence has been received of the massacre of Mr. Turnbull, mate of the whaler Adventurer, by the natives of Espiritu Santo. The Curator of the Botanic Gardens, Sydney, reports having discovered on Sidmouth Island a new fruit the size of a large cherry, which he considers the finest indigenous Australian fruit. The South Australian Government has chartered the s.s. Tararua to proceed to the Roper River, or Port Darwin, ia about a fortnight. The brigantine Alexandra is laid on by private speculators. A Remarkable Family lives in Dallas Country, Arkansas. The father is 108 years old, the mother 106, and the two are the parents of twenty-nine children — fifteen boys and fourteen girls. The New York Commissioners of Fish and Fisheries have hatched out during the past season 3,000,000 shad eggs, they have bred several million white fish, a million salmon trout, and they also supplied numbers of pike, perch, and other varieties. Fire — " Are dose bells ringing for fire?" inquired Simon of Tiberius. "No, indeed," answered Tiberius, " dey hab got plenty of fire, and da bells are now ringing for water." "When a Chicago girl quarrels with her lover, she communicates the important fact to her friends in the remark that she " isn't on squeezing terms with that fraud no more." A Little Boy having broken bis rock-ing-horse the day it was bought, his mother began to rebuke him, and to threaten to box his ears. He silenced her by inquiring, What is the good of a hoss till it's broke ? " Beginning Life. — The remark of a contemporary, " that many of our successful lawyers commenced life as preachers," is gracefully corrected by one of the legal gentlemen referred to, who begs leave to state that he begun life as an infant. Discretion is the better part of valor. Torn and Arthur have been rude to their mamma. Mamma has complained to papa, who is heard coming up stairs. Arthur — " I say, Tom, here comes pa ; I shall pretend to be asleep." Tom — " I sha'nt ; I shall get up and put something on." — Judy. A Novel Idea. — An intoxicated man saw two tramway cars passing him the other evening with red and blue lights in the front and rear. His fuddled brain at once comprehended colored lights, and lie was heard to say to himself, " Must be pretty sick — sickly here; they are running * chemists' shops about on wh — wheels ! " An Honest Farmer of Surrey has written a letter to a relative in Virginia to say that all the talk in the newspapers about a sanguinary engagement between the Germans and tbe English at Dorking is a hoax — that he lives in tbe neighborhood of Dorking, and that nothing of the sort has occurred there at all. Long Ago, at a dinner-table ia Massachusetts, a gentleman remarked that A , who used to be given to sharp practice, was getting more circumspect. •• Yes," replied Judge Hoare, "he bas reached the superlative of life. He began be seeking to get on ; then he sought to get honor ; and now he is tryiog to get honest." Here's an expression which needs not to be explained: — " Charlie ! what is osculation ? " " Osculation, Jenny dear, . Is a learned expression queer, For a nice sensation. I put my arm thus, round your waist, This ia approximation; You needf not fear — There's no one heie — Your lips quite near — I then " — •' Oh, dear 1 » "Jenny, that's osculation." According to a Spanish provincial paper, the people at Reup, in Catalonia, have been thrown into a panic by a prediction of an impending total darkness for a apace of three days, during which there are to be tremendous earthquakes. The discreet ladies are hastening to provide themselves, not with oil for their lamps, but with holy water, so that the basins in the churches are being constantly replenished,- and fresh buckets of the element have been demanded from one or more pulpits.

The Profits arising from the Dunedin Gas Works for 187 L were £0,230. A Diamond of some size has been found by a bullock-driver on Quenery'sruD, near Mansfield, Victoria. A Sydney taper urges that China is a more promising market for preserved meat than England. A Mild form of the foot and mouth disease has appeared among some cattle recently landed at Sydney from England.