MAKING GAME OF THE PRESS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2511, 7 April 1881, Page 4

MAKING GAME OF THE PRESS.

The followin paragraph appeared in the “ New Zealand Times ” of April Ist: —“ A sensational incident, which is likely to be narrated with all due amplification in Southern journals, occurred on Wednesday night, about 11.30 Mr Gillon manager of the United Press Association, and with him Messrs G. Humphries, Crombie Brown, and E. Winter, were standing at the door of the Press Association office, when a sudden shot was fired towards them—the ping of a bullet, evidently by the sound, coming from a smooth bore rifle, was heard as it struck an adjacent building, and the smouldering paper-wadding was picked up a short distance away. The person who fired the shot, and who had been noticed standing some few minutes before in the shadow of one of the doorways of Dawson and Co.’s warehouse, instantly scudded away at full speed, and who he is, or what he is, has not yet transpired. It has been suggested that he was an emissary of ‘ Honest John,’ bent upon the annihilation of the special correspondent of the “Lyttelton Times,” but this we need scarcely explain, is but a mild joke among the quartette of journalists who happened to be about when the shot was fired, but what the tale may expand to as it traverses none can yet tell.”