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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10419, 17 April 1897, Page 1 (Supplement)

The new Bishop of London wears a full beard, "It would be rather interesting," says a correspondent of the Westminster Gazette, " to know who was the last bolder of the Seo similarly adorned, I fancy Dr. Creighton breaks it record at least two centuries old. Laud was perhaps the last) bearded Bishop of London; his portrait shows him to have affected t.ho pointed ' goatee' and twiaced-up moustache of the Stuarts. A few years ago the Bishop of Liverpool waa singular among his cleanshaven brethren as the possessor of a venerable Beard ; but there are now quite a number of bearded bishops—to which number Dr. Croightoii'a euccossor at) Peterborough makes an addition." An amusing incident occurred in a trial before Mr, Justice Hawkins. A dock labourer, a sturdy fellow, who appeared to have great confidence in himself, was under cross-examination by a rather impetuous Queen's Counsel, and in the middle of it the judge interrupted to put a question to him. Before the witness had time to reply counsel quickly started another question. The badgered dock labourer turned round to the lawyer with the remark, " Vou shut up; I'm talking to the governor now." This reply caused much laughter in court. Hearing the public clock strike one a few minutes after it had " gone" midnight, an Ormskirk constable ascended tlio tower and found a vagrant asleep among (be works,'