JOURNALISM UNDER DIFFICULTIES.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2694, 7 November 1881, Page 2

JOURNALISM UNDER DIFFICULTIES.

Seldom in the history of journalism has a newspaper been issued under greater difficulties and amid less congenial surroundings than the “ News of the Camp” which was published during the 100 days siege of Pretoria. The editor thus describes the conditions under which the feat was accomplished :—“ A bungalow for a printing office, with canvas thrown over its unfinished roof, through which the

rain freely penetrated, a gentle waterspout running down the compositor’s back as he stood with a bandolier of Martini-Henry cartridges over his shoulder, his white apron for a uniform, composing-stick in hand, and his rifle lying suggestively near his printingframe ; the editor’s quarters, an array bell tent and a transport waggon, the space between ingeniously roofed in with a tattered sail stretched on telegraph poles | their work, editing a paper by day and on guard up to their knees in mud at night, or sleeping in a pair of leather breeches, long boots, and jack spurs.” The forty numbers of twelve pages each, foolscap size, have recently appeared in bound form, embellished with fourteen photographic illustrations of the siege.