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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 5, 6 November 1883, Page 4

A writer in a contemporary gives some pleasant ancedotes about the late Dean Gaieford. "I have my doubts about the Thirty-nine Articles, sir," said a too conscientious Christ Church man, to him on the eve of taking his degree. The dean looked at the troubled one in a hard, sardonic way. How much do you weigh, sir !” •• About ten stone, I think, sir,” was the astonished answer. “ And how tall are you to half an inch’" “I really don’t know to half an inch.” “ And how old are you to an hour ’ ’ The dubious one was speechless. “ Well, you are in doubt about everything that relates to yourself,” cried the dean triumphantly, “and yet you will walk about saying, ‘ I am twenty years old, I weigh ten stone, and am five feet eight inches high.’ Go and sign the Articles ; it will be a long time before you find anything that suggests no doubts. ” It was his common practice to throw all the letters that came to him by post into a basket and open the lot once a month just as Priuce Talleyrand is said to have done. In this way he said he had to write fewer letters, as most of the business to which the letters referred would settle itself without his interference. WASTE PAPER for Sale at the TrLBrnoNS Office.