ADDRESS. 
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de Castelnau, Edward Wilson, Frederic E. Godfrey, Samuel 
Wilson, F. G. Moule, William Lyall, Sir Eobert Officer, and 
Morton Allport, of Tasmania, and Dr. George Bennett, of 
Sydney. 
" To the present and former Governments of this country we 
must feel deeply indebted for the liberal support we have 
received for so many years. 
" Allow me again to thank you for the honour you have done 
me, and to assure you that I shall always continue to take a 
lively interest in promoting the cause we all have so much at 
heart, and which has afforded me such agreeable pastime for 
the last 16 years. 
" I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant, 
"Thomas Black." 
