AMUSING BLUNDERS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4620, 2 November 1923, Page 2

AMUSING BLUNDERS.

NEWSPAPER ERRORS. Many M.P.’s speak so indistinctly that reporters in the press gallery ca’mot hear what they say. This causes amusing blunders occasionally, says the “Pall Mall Gazette.” For example, the famous saying of Drummond, the Irish Under-secretary; “ Property has its duties as well as its rights,” appeared in print as “ Prosperity has its duties for which it fights.” “Great is Diana of the Ephesians !” once exclaimed Sir William Harcourt, in the course of an onslaught on Mr Chamberlain, but a provincial paper gave the quotation as “Great Dinah, what a farce this is I” Dr. Magee, when Archbishop cf York, was reported to have said in the House of Lords that “Drunkenness is jolly,” but of course what he did say was “drunkenness is folly.” Mr Swift Mac Neill once quoted in th? House of Common.s the judicial declaration of the late Baron Dowse, of the Irish Bench, that “the resident magistrates could no more. state a case than they could write a Greek ode ” and it was reported by a reporter as “the resident magistrates could no more state a case than they cbuld ride a Greek goat.”