GOOD JOKE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1888, 24 October 1913, Page 8

GOOD JOKE.

' THE SIEGE OF THE PRESSMAN. Good humour was in evidence amongst, the crowds which congregated about the wharves and in tho Post Office Square, and what was considered a capital joke occurred when tho crowd was surging round the Tolls Office. It appears that tho free-labourer refugee was unknown to the majority of the men in the union. They woro all anxious to get a look at him. Unnoticed, a-press reporter,' dressed in oilskins and a slouch hat, had passed into ■ the Tolls Office. Immediately he jvas seen inside those members of tho union who wero in front near the windows pointed .to tho reporter, and ■ beckoning to their friends, said: "There he is . That's him. Immediately there was-a rush to tho windows t-o see tho hero. Lino after lino of curious faces came up to the windows, and many epitaphs, other than polite, were hurled at the reporter. Wondering what all tho commotion was about outside, he made a move towards tho door.- Immediately the cry went up: "Hero he is," and there was a perceptible-movement of. the crowd towards the doorway. Then ono of their number, who happened to know tho reporter, said: "Go away, you blooming fools. That's not him. . .That's a bally newspaper reporter."