A SLIGHT MISTAKE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 936, 29 October 1879, Page 2

A SLIGHT MISTAKE.

A correspondent of the New Zealahder at the Sydney Exhibition tells the following good story : —As every Wellington resident knows, Lord Normanby is a thorough YorkshiremaU and like most Yorkshiremen, a very comfortable, homely-looking individual ; that Jb m his undress. Those . that knew him when he was m New Zealand will not, therefore, be ' much surprised at ' the following. It was inside the Exhibition Building, and fjbnes, wbqr.'hadVtagn looking everywhere for his" friend Smith, at last saw him walking m a slow sauntering fashion up the transept. Jones hurried after him, and slapping and friend heartily on the back, expressed .hifli great, pleasure at finding hiriir'at" laslb $h_ v 'supposMi*3r&nd proved to; be Lord jNprmanby, ; <who good humouredly enough explained that it was a case of mistaken 'Indehtily. Jones, as may be supposed, 'was/ for some minutes rather crestfallen, but soon recovering his naturally exuberant spirits, and this -time seeing his real friend disappearing round the cornerjof the Italian court, rushed Up prebipitatlly and giving Smith a very pointed dig m the ribs, burst into a loud laugh, and commenced hurriedly to give, 1 of the mistake he had made beldfa " his surprise and horror* it again proved to be Lppd Normanby, and- this rf time ,|the- Victorian, Governor, with some asperity, jbegging his persecutor' to desist from these practical jokes,. Walked, away quickly to get as far as possible out of Jones's W«^.«lp*ntes; AM the; Rfcrs^Os, is gentleman weUkjipwn.. in, Sydney m commerial circles.