Startling News.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 250, 28 March 1888, Page 4

Startling News.

Evrav ncv/pjupei has had its woak moment. Some iteun ot intelligence, " monstrum, horrendmn, inioi me, Hgens," conies to hanu and receives tlic dignity of publication before anyone can *veJl be aware that it is &ho a caf-e oi " oni lunion ademptum "'—thai/ it lacked the light ot truth. There are journals. — ono name "/ill instantly occur to the London public— which do this sort of thing "of malice prepense : ' others do it by mischance. Bat beyond doubt, whether accidentally or deliberately, the "Shanghai Mercury "' must be considered to have cut the record iccently in the matter of startling new?. Under the head of '* Stray Topic 0 ," it lately pi caen ted its readers with the following convmirniuitionfl, all (save the mark !) published on jhe tame day :—: — "Charles farnell, some timo MJ\ tor Cork city, and three prominent Anarchists have been executed at Kilmainham. A small detachment oi cavalry wasin readiness, but their services were not* required." " A Bill üboli.shingthe official designation of Ireland and assimilating the laws of the United Kingdom has received Royal assent." "Mr W. E, Gladstone was found dead this morning, through an overdose of morphia." ** Writs have been issued for the arrest of Morley and two otl^er conspirators." i One shudders to thiuk what must be the : normal condition of the readers of the ! «• Shanghai Mercury," if the news of this single day be taken as a sample of what Shanghai " entei^rise " is capable of evolving oufc oi its inner consciousness. The journalistic method? of the "CrapaudVolaVit'" bixik into-fca»?e insignificance beside 1 the breathless majesty of these fiction?. Shanghai ie evidently an El Dorado of political flreams.'