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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 945, 21 May 1881, Page 3

A supplementary mail for the United Kingdom, &c., via ’Frisco will close this evening at 7 o’clock, for conveyance to Auckland per Albion tomorrow evening. A humorous contributor to the Christchurch Star remarks : —“ If I were compelled to choosa between becoming an editor or a bailiff or suffering annihilation, I think I in for the sudden death clause. I am tol<r that the average editor has more enemies than any other professional man on the face of the earth, and, strange to say, the more (Rented he is, the more his enemies advertise him and bring him into prominence. There surely must be something in a man who is well abused. I am further assured that a journalist can never hope to attain to positive eminence unless he carries about with him a fist as big as a shoulder of mutton. He must be proficient in the pugilistic art, and prepared at all times to defend his honor and his nose both with his fist and his quil. There doesn’t seem to be much of the poetry of life about all this, and fate is hard upon the man consigned to editorial doom. Don’t ’ be editors, dear boys ; life is too short. About those bailiffs I haven’t much to say. You may see one or two of them every day about the Resident Magistrate’s Court, with an eye in a sling, and presenting as battered an appearance as though they had just come off a battlefield. However, of the two, I should prefer to be a bailiff; but my tip is for the death racket.”