WONDERFUL LITERARY COINCIDENCE.
[to the editob.] §£Sir, — As I take a lively interest in the present war in Europe, especially in its probable bearings on the States not yet involved, I was not surprised to find that political disturbances in Belgium were reported to have occurred. As your evening contemporary last night stated on the authority of the Melbourne Daily Telegraph that the Belgian news was a hoax, I turned to a file of that journal which 1 happened to have, and whilst scanniug its European correspondence T made a discovery, and rather a surprising one, and that was that the leading article in the Evening Star of yesterday, which betrayed considerable literary ability, was taken bodily from the Daily Telegraph of the 26th Sept. With the exception of two or three words at the end, and the omission of a portion in the middle, the two articles are word for word alike. Newspapers are said occasionally to be good "mediums" for advertising, but the editor of your contemporary is evidently a medium of the spiritual world, and must have been very en rapport (I think that is the word) indeed with the editor of the Melbourne Daily Telegraph. On no other grounds can this wonderful coincidence be accounted for. — Yours, &o. A Reader of the Daily Telegraph.
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Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 737, 8 October 1870, Page 2
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218WONDERFUL LITERARY COINCIDENCE. Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 737, 8 October 1870, Page 2
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