A GOVERNOR'S WIFE.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 932, 27 February 1872, Page 3

A GOVERNOR'S WIFE.

Mrs Du Cane, the wife of the Governor of Tasmania, recently met with a somewhat singular adventure. A daughter of Lord Lyndhurst, she inherits some of the strongly marked features of her father's character, and ijby no means a conventional grande kite. She takes an active part in the management of the hospital, nurses the sick with her own hands, shows a much greater partiality for bull-dogs than for poodles, and is very fond of solitary drives in a sort of> tilbury, her liorse being gaily caparisoned a la luse with a number of jingling bells. A few days ago she got into a neighborhood where she was not known, and pulling up to enjoy a lovely bit of scenery, found herself surrounded by a group of children. " Oh, come here, here's the Circus woman, let's find out where she's going to put up {he tent." She tried at first to undeceive them, but they would not be persuaded; they would have it that she was going to " pitch " somewhere near their village, and were eager to point out a good spot. At last she entered into the spirit of the thing, allowed them to show' her a convenient locality, and after hoaxing them with a graphic account of the wonders of her show, was allowed to drive away m peace. This little adventure to-made-.her. more enamoured than erer of her solitary drives. She has ibund that, as a " circus woman," she was more an object of interest than as the wife of a Governor. Vive la Boheme. —" Leader."