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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4242, 24 October 1874, Page 3

Editors do not usually appear as defendant; in police court eases. I'hey are ordinarilj model observers of the law, practising wha( they preach, though—as human nature b frailty itself—they sometimes break out into a md then. There is no ride, howevi n. exception, and an exception h occurred in New South Wales. Tl bury Times —says a Newcastle• journal—"has lately undergone a change of proprietors, and some vicissitudes in the typographical department as well. A 'substitute' half sheet of the paper, published on the 3rd instant, describes how that the late editor, Mr. Delaney, having been removed with the other changes, but allowed to remain temporarily with his family in the occupation of the uppfr part pf_the premises, amused himself, during the absence of the printers, in ' pie' making—that is upsetting the contents of the type cases and sundry 'forms' in a mixed heap, to the no small consternation of the proprietors, who, on arrival in the morning, had to force an entrance into tho office, and found things as described. This more than ' Roland for an Oliver' return was to result in a Police Court enquiry."