STRENGTH OF PRINCIPLE.
To the Editor op the Nelson Evening Mail,
Sir — I lately saw in an English paper an anecdote under the above heading which I should like you to publish. It was to the following effect : — Some years since an eminent banker called upon an able editor to complain of a paragraph in his last issue in which the suicide of the banker aforesaid by hanging had been circumstantially narrated. The banker confidently appealed to his existence as proof positive of his not having committed suicide, and was not a little astonished at receiving the following reply : — " Sir," said the editor, "you really must excuse me, but it is our first principle never to contradict ourselves. We shall, however, have much pleasure in stating, if you should so wish it, that you were cut down before life was extinct, and that hopes are entertained of your eventual recovery." From the tenor of the late controversy between a leading member of the Opposition and the Superintendent, I almost think that I am justified in surmising that the able editor above referred to % has emigrated and is now conducting a paper in Nelson. Yours, &c, Lookek-On.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 129, 3 June 1870, Page 2
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196STRENGTH OF PRINCIPLE. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 129, 3 June 1870, Page 2
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