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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 15, 19 January 1869, Page 2

The Omeo cleared Port Phillip Heads at 4.30 p.m. on the sth inst.; experienced light and variable winds the first four days, then strong N.W. gales; arrived at Bluff Harbor at 6 a.m. on the Uth; sailed for Port Chalmers at 4 p.m. same day, and arrived at 6 a.m. on the I2th; left again at 3 p.m., and arrived at Lyttelton at 3 p.m.. an the 15th; sailed for Wellington at 8 p.m. on the 16th, and arrived at 6 p.m. on the 17th; left at 6 p.m. on the 18th, and arrived here at 8 a.m. this day. We are indebted to the kindness of the purser for later dates of Wellington papers. A Frenchman wishing to say of a young lady that she was as gentle as a lamb, thus expressed himself ' she be mooch tame like the petite mouton. All bachelors are not entirely lost to the refinement of sentiment, for* the following toast was lately given by one of them at a public dinner, — 'The ladies, sweet-briars ■in the garden of life.' A witness spoke of a particular person as having seen him ' partially clad.' * Was he not. quite nude?' asked the examining council. 'No Sir,' replied the witness, 'he always wore a pair of