FROM WORDS TO BLOWS.
Fracas Between an Editor and a, Lawyer.
[per press association]
DUNEDIN, Sept. 30.
About noon on Saturday an altercation took place, which has caused some excitement. Mr Ashcroft, journalist, when coming out of the Post Office, deemed a remark made by Mr Smith, the solicitor, standing there with a friend, to be insulting, Mr Ashcroft asked Mr Smith to repeat the remark, and, on doing so, the former struck him with a slick he was carrying, but ibe friend succeded in preventing further hostilities. [Mr Ashcroft is the late Editor of the Otago Daily Times, of which Mr Smith is a director. The Editor received his dismissal for exposing the Dummyism cases, in which it is alleged a,certain director of the Times Company was concerned.]
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Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1093, 1 October 1883, Page 2
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