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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1901, 25 July 1888, Page 3

Reporters differ m many ways. Some are purely descriptive, m some a. bump of humor is magnificently developed, some permeate a Btory, Bhort or long, with indices of personality. Others are oast iron ia recital, and make their stories as piquant as an an algebraical problem. A good reporter, gifted with natural spirits and health, is a thing of beauty and a joy for ever m any well-regulated newspaper office. Every door is open to him, and the field of life is spread before him with its sunshine and its shadow. In the course of an evening he talks with presidents and walks with prinoeg. He sitq with tha sorrowful and mourns' with the humble. No place is too sacred, none too lowly ; no man is too high, too rich, too great for him to approaoh, none too poor, too humble for him to serve. He is aa muoh at home m the palace of a millionaire as m the hospital ward of a prison. He writes with equal readiness the glib utterances of a befrilled bishop and the harrowing confession of a poor devil m the Tombl, A good reporte must be disoreet. How muoh he hears that he cannot tell ; how much he knows that it would nqt be fair for him to xeyeal. £T,e sees the best and worst types of e«,oiety, and has qis hands more constantly upon the pulse of affairs than any minister, lawyer, dootor, or wrobiGt,—" N,y. Graphic, 1 ;