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Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 117, 18 May 1892, Page 8

1 The old people afc the Costley Home'were entertained last evening .by Mr and Mrs Archibald Andersen and party of ladies and,gentlemen. .The. various items of thß lengthy programme, which consisted of vocal and instrumental selections, were eplendidly rendered, some of the numbers being enthusiastically received by the old people. A meeting of the Committee of the Auckland Provincial Agricultural Association will bo held at 2 p.m. on Friday next, to consider the schedule for the coming show. An old shoe-black, who. for years stood in front of the old Greyhound- Hotel, died on Sunday ab the Costley Home. Bis name wan' James O'Connor. William' Morris knows his Dickens as wol! ttfl auy man alive. It is claimed for, the poob that, stivo him a fair start in any iont'onooof Dickens and he will carry the BOfttOfico on to the end with only a very ftllKlib departure from textual accuracy.. I nil oxbant copies of the ■' Pickwxck Papers low suddenly .destroyed, XViniam.Moms could diotato the. book for publication itfftin, procblcnlly as we know ifa now^. Ihe JSolj lihb a Hiiporb memory, bub behind the