Amateur Reporting.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 133, 28 May 1872, Page 7

Amateur Reporting.

An amateur reporter sent the following to the Tlidriies Advertiser. Not being able to unravel such a tangled skein, the editor submits it to his readers as received : " In consequence of the very heavy rain yesterday, we are sorry to hear of a rather extraordinary, but serious accident which befel Mr Albert Smith, for while going across the street to get into a cab for which he had been waiting, for the driver being wet through had met with an accident by which a wheel came off, on account of a drunken Maori who would insist that gold was being obtained at Ohinemuri, and as he was about to reply the driver cracked his whip—and the mud is very bad in that part of the street, having caused a nun not long ago to lose one of his boots, which comes very hard on his shoemaker, win) being a poor man with a large family ; and his wife, a worthy soul, had lately lost her eldest son through his taking cold, a course which cannot be too stronglv deprecated. The doctor, an extremely old man, gave it as his opinion, which is worth something considering his experience. Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, and the steady downpour of the rain, during which thunder and lightning were plainly visible, Mr Symons did all one man could do, and we are glad to say was very successful, and was much applauded by those present. We think it is really time something should be done to prevent the recurrence of such a thing in future."