NEW GOVERNOR FOR TASMANIA.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3405, 15 June 1868, Page 4

NEW GOVERNOR FOR TASMANIA.

The Gravesend and Dartford Bepwter of 34tb March contra the following br£f but explicit announcement of the appointment of a successVto the present Governor of Tasmania .—-"Sir James SSSZHSft merly for PtotamoaH^ has been S2S G ™ of Tasmania, in the place of Colonel T. Gore Browne, whose term of office has Kf . "-fl" Elgin. Cmrant of 13th March has Jame n^W***"' 1 c undeM *«^ -fn a?' ?* hln ' ton^ -Bart., of Lo^ie-Elphin-atone, Aberdeenahire, formerly M.P. for Portsmouth, Juno * n P , pOin , tie^ ovemor of Tasmania, in the £ ? C 0l °" el /- Se re BroWD< -' whoss *«m«rf £4 nnn TK Plr ? d " Th<S BalMy of the Governor is 44.UUU. The London correspondent of the Main Couranlbhw&llvides toSir James Klphinsfcone's claims on the Derbj-puraeli Government, and to his action a«» a member of the House of Commons :—" I see that ,^ S E 'P hinst one is appointed to the Governoramp of Tasmania. He has certainly earned it. The present Ministry have the virtue of rewarding those who have spent and been spent in their service. 1 almost wonder, however, at a man like Sir James, who thought he had a mission— i.e., to re-formournavy-expatriating himself to theantipodes." The Owl of 11th March contradicts this statement, and nays that Sir James Elphinstone has not been Appointed.

I^terbstiko Ckrbmony.-A few afternoons since • large number of Germans assembled on board the ?heT!?" P ?!l eDe Capt * iQ R * achen > t0 c «^r*te Germ^o ng f °i the - commeroi *l fl»g of the North Rem.DConfeder.tioD for the first time in ffobson'a colours and to the captain of the -hi™ fa Tbnmpew Z ohamp*ga«, both toiwts being cheerfullvreTS^ nambw of German songs during the afternoon. A Capuchin some time ago in Ireland called upon hw congregation to be especially thankful that Itowfdnoe aLould have placed death at thf end of life, and not in the middle, go that we have £ S£ flxble time to prepare for it,