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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1242, 9 January 1883, Page 3

It ia seldom that the acquisition of learning pays a student so amply as in the case of Mr David Margaliouth, who, since he left school, is said by the “ Weekly Register ’’ to have received in scholarships and prizes during a brilliant undergraduate career at Oxford no less a sum than £1,200. Such are the rewards and emoluments of ancient Catholic foundations. It is stated that when Mr Morgoliouth was only five yean old he could repeat almost any portion of the Old Testament in Hebrew or English, He took a treble first at Oxford, which, we believe, has been achieved only twice in this century. His father was regarded as ope of the leading authorities of the day in Hebrew, Sanscrit, and Arabic. Remarkable Phenomenon: A tipsy Bostonian who was arrested while making vain efforts to clutch at a barber's pole, exclaimed as the policeman drifted him in the direction of the station house: “Strange, I never saw’r'rora borealish t’near before.”