Tbe writer of "Postcripts" in tbe Punedin Star thai recently refers to oar old friend :— The Rer. Mr Bose, who, nnder the professional pseudonym of v Arthur Sketchley," h«s recently made a toor through New Zealand with the view of making money oat of the colonial yokels by exhibiting the '• played oat " ralgarities of " Mrs Brown," having been signally unsuecessfaT in hitting the popular taste, which is tuned to something of a higher quality, has taken his revenge by writing a letter to tbe 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 realities;'* and adds '* I never saw so many drunken wretches lying like swine in and about the doors as I did in these hotels." The towDS he designates as " little better than brickfields,' 1 and he mentions one in par* ticular which a few months previously to his visit had been * nearly washed out of creation by a mountain torrent bursting OTer it. If, however, half of that which was heaid as to the rascality of the in* habitants were true, no visitation, however disastrous, short of destruction, would hare been adequate to the deserts of such a nest of scoundrels, wherein, aa we are told, hotels were openly dens of vice, of fraudulent bankruptcy, and every villainy rampant !' The Rev. Mrs Brown musk surely have imbibed some* thing stronger than sodawator when sho indited such stuff as this ; but tbe cir« cumstantiality of the inventions may possibly deceive the Anglo-Indians.
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Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 9 March 1881, Page 2
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274Untitled Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 9 March 1881, Page 2
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