FIFTY YEARS AGO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21167, 27 April 1932, Page 8

FIFTY YEARS AGO.

EXTRACTS FROM THE HERALD. The following are extracts f rom New Zealand Herald of April 27, 1882: The second annual exhibition of the Auckland Society of Arts in the Choral Hall was brought to a close yesterday evening. There was a large company present, and during the evening Mr. I®* pey's band played at intervals. The exhibition has been well attended since the opening and the committee and all connected with it are to be congratulated on the success which has attended their efforts. The money taken at the door for the sale of catalogues during the fi>® days the exhibition has been open amounted to nearly £IOO, and the sale ot pictures, etc., including the art union drawing, realised about £SOO. J> lr - Blomfield and Mr. A. Martin have been the most successful among the exhibitors in disposing of their pictures. NearV the whole of the former gentleman s have been purchased,' those sold realising a total of about £BO. When Sir Arthur Gordon was Governor of New Brunswick, he distinguished himself by making an extraordinary demand on the Bishop of the Anglican Church there. This was no less than an order to His Lordship that in the yariou churches throughout the diocese, in ne of the ordinary prayer offered up for tne Governor, there should be specific m en tion of " Sir Arthur Gordon, bv tne Grace of God and favour of our Sovereig Lady the Queen, Governor of New Brunswick." The demand was, of course, noc complied with, as the bishop possesse keener sense of the ludicrous than been bestowed upon His ExcellencyHowever, the matter became subject ii infinite merriment among the and long after the author of the J had shaken American dust from ms - he was known as " Sir Arthur, y Grace of God." The soubriquet has lowed him to the Antipodes and it is , a by-word among the Governor s g friends" in "Wellington.