A Levee was held at Government House Tuesday, 7ch May, in the morning, common cing shortly before 11 a.m, Somethiree thousand persons were present, including members pf Parliaments, oth Federal and Siate, the principal military and naval officers, and the heads of the learned professions and prominent men in all e'reles. The afternwon was devoted to a typically Australian spectacle; some 200 men employed at stations, or engaged in the popular pro: fession known as "droving,"
ATIIRED IN RED SHIRTS, white riding breeches, black leggings, and the well-known brown slouch hats, mustered near the Law Courts, and pro: ceeding by a circuitous route, reached the gates of novemment House. Here owing to the action of the police on duty, admission was refused, the difficulty being got over by sending " deputation to Capt. Wallington, the Gorr.-General's right-hand man, wheat once gave orders for them to be admitted. Adisplay was givea in the grounds, the Royal party being evidently interested The horses chosen were all noted bue jumpers and in many cases great difficulty was experienced in saddling them. The rough-riding honours fell to T. Lloyd, and some of the English visitors were heard to express the opinion that he must have been nailed on to the sedile, as his mount tried almost every way short of turning a somersault, to unseat der.
MEMENTO FOR THE DUCHESS, As time at the Duke's disposal is short, he will be able to see little of Australia, save that in the immediate vicinity of the capitals, yet he will not leave the country without having seen something of whit forms part of the daily life of men from the Upper Murray, Murrumbidge-, and other pastoral distriels of the island' continent, A silver-mounted stockiship is to be presented to the Duchess as a memento of the occasion.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.