STICKING UP AT OHINEMURI.

Dunstan Times, Issue 679, 23 April 1875, Page 3

STICKING UP AT OHINEMURI.

—o— An attempt atjhighway robbery has occurred at Ohinemuri, and we hope the Armed Constabulary stationed) there will show there vigilance by apprehending the offenders speedily. Thejjroad from Paoroa to the Puke passes through high'ititree scrub, and is, as might! naturally be’ supposed, a lonely place offering facilities for concealment. 'Two men had been seen loafing about there in a suspicious manner on Sunday night, and’on Monday night shortly after dark, as a carter'!;named Snelgar, was driving a dray belonging to Mr. Akers, ho was bailed up by a man, who jumped on the cart behind, and demanded that Snelgar should hand over his money or pay the penalty with his life. Instead of doing either the young carter hit the highwayman overthe head withthewhip, andofferedsuch a vigorous resistance that his assailant decamped. On reaching the Puke a party of men was organised, and one named Dixon sent a head as a decoy, who was armed with a revolver lent by Mr. Creagh. On reaching the spot whore Snelgar had been stopped, Dixon was called upon to stand by a man who rushed out upon him. Dixon retaliated by prematurely cooking his revolver, instead of parleying until the main body’of the search party, which was a short distance behind, came up. Although called to stand at the peril of his life, the man made tracks into the scrub, and Dixon attempted to fire, but the revolver missed—as Mr. Creagh, who lent it, knew it would miss. The search party came up at this time and scattered about the scrub, but their search was unavailing. The police are on the alert, and we hope the operations of these ruffians will be nipped in thojbud.

The following is from the St. Louis “Globe” : --The business of journalism will continue'to be ah inviting field for experiments to those who Lave a large amount of egotism. A man who, having edited anews paper until he was forty, should hesuddenly announce himself a lawyer, would be regarded as a fool by the legal profession; and yet we often hear of lawyers of forty making sudden pretentions to journalism. There is an idea that the business of editing requires no apprenticeship; that editors come forth from law ofiioes and colleges fully armed for the profession, like Pallas from the brow of Jove. It is a mistake. There is not in America to-day a'singie journalist of national reputation who has not devoted more time and more hard work to his profession than with, equal fitness and application would have a great lawyer or a great doctor. And yet ninety out of every hundred men you meet in the street will hesitate about carrying a hod or making a pair of shoes, whereas there will probably not be one in a hundred who can't, according to his own judgement, edit any newspaper in the country better than it is edited, no matter in what manner or by whom.