LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 66, 16 February 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Melbourne correspondent of the Hawke'a Bay Herald says :~."The^ Bishop of Adelaide, who p res jdei at./*'speechday' m that city, made an onslaught upon Charles 'Dickens uppn < Wackford Squoer*/ the- forkfhire

schoolmaster m ' Nicholas Nickleby.' A fri nd of the bishop knew the original of Dickens' ' character ' and according to his account the schoolmaster was an excellent men, and had/j-ecentty died of a * broken 1 * heart.* Now ' Nicholas Nickleby ' was written m 1838 or 1839, and MrSqueers was not, described as a young man then, but he has sunk into the grave of a Vbfoken-heart ' of 43 years* standing; Ojae's admiration is divided' between Sir Squeer'a sequacio-js h«art and the bishop's marrellons credulity, The_, talented ., and .ever popular. Kennedy Famirf are .shortly td'apriear m "-Weiljfebn. '- r ' i Mr C. Stutter, formerly with Messrs King Bros, i is now with Mr Harper, of BuUa,Jtor whom he will probably, soon be taking charge of a branch store. An old'Trtory comes" f rom Washington. x Sjeventeen years ago a young lady wbs tried for the murder of a clerk m the Ciril Service. Her counsel pleaded 11 paroxysm^ insanity,'* and obtained : a verdict of acquittal. For some years af ter thelady'flrasidonfined m a lunatic asylum, and was finally discharged cured. She .hair just' bedn married to the oounsel who defended her^ a.nfl ( iwho4^ naw:BQ'years jof To sbowOtb^w'tat an extent cricket is supported m. Vict<i^i{ii \ltid Australasian states ' that of the LI6OO jreaHsed by the association m (jheuins^ Iri*etcoldriisK £1000 has been j placed. -ift ...the' uSbiu^h rMelboiirne Building Society at 7 par cent.