GRATIFYING INTELLIGENCE.
TO THE EDITOE OF THE LYTTELTON TIMES. Sib,—With what pleasure did your numerous readers peruse the joyful tidings that "an English master is expected to arrive by the Sebastopol." He certainly is most sadly wanted here. Did not one of your correspondents, a few days ago, growl (I use his own term) because the mail was sent to and from Oxford "by a boy on a horse, packed in a calico bag." Matter enough for growling, most certainly. But worse remains behind. Three magistrates, one of them an ex-super, and as generally is supposed, an editor of a paper, in writing about a lady of questionable or unquestionable character, treat us to the following delicious bit of English:— " A native of Edinburgh, which dialect she speaks." Oh! Mr. Editor, what'will be the consternation of our canny neighbours at Dunedin when they learn that the "gude city of Embroo " has been, by some wicked enchanter, or at all events by three magistrates, turned into a " dialect." Yours faithfully, W.C.F.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1087, 11 April 1863, Page 3
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170GRATIFYING INTELLIGENCE. Lyttelton Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1087, 11 April 1863, Page 3
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