AN AWKWARD MISTAKE.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4510, 19 June 1883, Page 3

AN AWKWARD MISTAKE.

Arebdeieon M—r-, of New Zealand, was a gentleman remarkable for setting 'into'minor scrapes through an innocent ";1 meaUHeiomenesg. Shortly after landiftg ' in 1 England upon a brief holiday tour, he fc wm w«lk)i>g; alone a railway platform. m, when lie descried a few yards in front of Ma* jpM>tleman whose back he recog* Bned'f^tbat of an old New Zealand , friend. Inspired by. an impulse to playfully anrprise his old acquaintance, the Archdeacon plucked at a pocket-handker chief which was hanging out, but in an instant,tbt band of a stalwart policeman wm oil'Jti«varm. "Come with -me, and ccSße flwriy," said the guardian of the IMUeTv >:**xtm miatake me,' said the vrisoMr. *H am Arobdeacoo M-r—, of ' ij , ,-- in New ■ Zealaod," point* ing to his clerical attire. "Oh, that won't do," . said the captor; " that gsm© is often tried on." "But," remon^. stralcd the archdeacon, "that gentleman > in front is a friend of mine. -Ask him ■iwholam." To this reasonable request 1 the policeman* acceded. Overtaking the reverend gentleman's friend, the police- ' nan tapped him on the back, and as be turned] round the archdeacon saw, to bis borro»t the face of. an entire 'strangeri "Tfcis>-ferson," said the policeman^." just now picked your pocket. He says you're * friend df bis P" •• Nerer saw him before ia sny life !"-«••» the reply. And the policeman, now cerlnin tbat he bad ; got hold of an accomplished impostor, ran him in. It was. on]y hf communicating with the -Biehopof LiehfJeJd, under whom he hsii served in a dioceae of New Zeakn^^lttt the aportivp archd»sj»on after a SgjStained his Velease.-ißtttii^