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New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 211, 20 April 1877, Page 13

In presenting the prizes to the successful students at the Dover school of Art, Earl Granville addressed himself to a refutation of the Bey. Mark Pattiaon'a opinion that taste in art is decaying in tuis country. As proofs that taste is improving the noble earl pointed to our churches, country houses, manufactories, needlework, children's books, and bouquet arranging, as so many indications that much positive progress has been made within the las thirty years. Mas. Patiktich, of the Universal Hotel, Maelaggnn-street, continues to conduct her comfortable and well-known boardiug house wiih the ability alwsy* shown in the management of the establishment referred to. Persons coming into town, from the country and elsewhere, will fiind all their wants attended to irith the utmost care (