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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 54, 6 March 1869, Page 2

Mrs Gore Browne, in her reply to att address from the ladies of Hobarfc Town* accompanying a present of albums, books of autographs and jewellery* observed:— 'It makes my heart ache to close the volume of my life in Tasmania; the pages are full of bright pictures* sunny memories, loved names* and although you have written the word . "Finis " in the fairest characters, it is still a bitter word.' At the farewell ball, after supper, in reply to the toast of his health, Colonel Browne remarked: — 'If I am asked, when I return to the other side of the world, where I have been, I shall ignore the old geography books, and say I have spent seven years in the Friendly Island, a land flowing with milk and honey, where hospitality awaits you in every direction* whether you seek it in the shepherd's hut or in the statelier abode of the wool kingSt It is sad to say farewell to a land so bright and sunny. In the cold and cloudy climate of the North we shall not readily forget Tasmania, where if we "count but the hours that shine," life is twice as long as it is in Britain. So our children will think when they remember the home of their childhood. The Dalesford paper learns that 'the other day an amusing blunder was made at the Custom-house. It having been reported to the hon. the Commissioner that an invoice of several thousand *' breech* loaders" had been entered, he probably suspected that they were destined for the use of the Maori rebels. The cases were accordingly detained for his inspection, I ufc the result was the "breechloaders" proved to be nothing more than a new kind of; tobaccos-pipe, with a peculiar arrangement for charging and cleaning. As a waggish Melbourne correspondent writes the pieces were at once " let off." The following announcement lately appeared in a paper— 'Edward Eden painter, is requested to communicate with his brother* when he will hear of somethiug to his advantage— his wife is dead.'