A curious mistake occurred, Wt an>( Murray AiU\:r(i<cr) loam, at the entertainment recently given by Colonel Anderson iu Melbourne lo our military guests, Sir XV. •lervois and ■ olonel Scratchloy. Amongst this invited %v;u the city recorder, Mr. who was stupendously got up in jabot hair en <{ucu<?t silk stockings, knee breeches, &o. Sir William, it is said, somehow or other mistook him for the Bishop of Molbour;: , M\n ;iddre>s«'d him as such, till *.0:110 kii:d ;*n-\;d di.-'ubn-'t-d him of iiio misap:»rtdio:is-i-.«u It i-> .--lid tlic worthy civic t ■ i;icti'«u.-. did i.oi I"i-i.-l (latr-jre-1 by his usicxpecL d s.t.iii-Luion to i bishopric. The festivity • t ;he opening however soon ovenveighed hia aruiuyauce.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 4898, 28 July 1877, Page 2
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