HIS LORDSHIP.
To the Editor : Sir, — When I see the Chief Justice and the Governor, men. of birth and high attainments, denied the title of "my Lord," I cannot but feel surprised that you and your brother editors should so persistently give title to a colonial bishop, who in his youth was most probably a very poor boy in ould Ireland. It is a burlesque on the title. They don't do so in America. Why do you do it here 1 Ecclesiastics, it appears to me, are more ambitious and more fond of titles than laymen. — Yours, Humility,
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Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4786, 28 December 1872, Page 3
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98HIS LORDSHIP. Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4786, 28 December 1872, Page 3
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