MRS BROWN REVIEWED.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2179, 18 February 1881, Page 3

MRS BROWN REVIEWED.

The writer of “Postscripts” in the Dunedin “ Star ” thus recently refers to our old friend: —The Rev Mr Rose, who, under tho professional pseudonym of “ Arthur Sketchley,” has recently made a tour through New Zealand with tho view of making money out of the colonial yokels by exhibiting the “played out” vulgarities of “Mrs Brown,” having been signally unsuccessful in hitting the popular taste, which is tuned to something of a higher quality, has taken his revenge by writing a letter to the “ Bombay Gazette,” which, for audacious mendacity, is unequalled even in the annals of ephemeral literature. He talks of the hotels (which, however, in Dunedin he was privileged, by the hospitality of a confiding acquaintance, not to patronise) as “ stern realitiesand adds “ I never saw eo many drunken wretches lying like swine in and about the doors as I did in those hotels.” The towns he designates as “little better than brickfields,” and he mentions one in particular which a few months previously to his visit had been “nearly washed out of creation by a mountain torrent bursting over it. If, however, half of that which was heard as to the rascality of the inhabitants were true, no visitation, however disastrous, short of destruction, would have been adequate to the deserts of such a nest of scoundrels, wherein, aa wo are told, hotels were openly dens of ■vice, of fraudulent bankruptcy, and every villainy rampant !” The Rev. Mrs Brown must surely have imbibed something stronger than sodawatcr when she indited suoh stuff as this ; but the circumstantiality of the inventions may possibly deceive .the AngloIndians,