AMUSING BLUNDERS.
NEWSPAPER ERRORS. Many M.P.'s speak so indistinctly that reporters in the press gallery cannot 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!" Dr. Magee, when Archbishop of York, was reported to have said in the House of Lords that " drunkenness is jolly," but, of course what ho did say was that "drunkenness is folly." Mr. Swift Mac Neill once quoted in the House of Commons 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 resi-. dent magistrates could no more state a case than they could ride a Greek goat." . .
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Matamata Record, Volume VI, Issue 483, 25 October 1923, Page 1
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193AMUSING BLUNDERS. Matamata Record, Volume VI, Issue 483, 25 October 1923, Page 1
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