THE EDITOR'S BOX.

Observer, Volume 6, Issue 151, 4 August 1883, Page 3

THE EDITOR'S BOX.

' vf The, latest joke in Hamilton is "the editor's ■-•; jfeox;*' VAn enterprising member of the press, who -. sl^aU , be /nameless, being disappointed of a lift ";from''Qhaupo to Hamilton some nights since, and t* falling ..amongst, thieves" (metaphorically ' thought the atmosphere of the place ; was i jnst a "leetletoo hot," and determined to > "foot it" home. Fourteen stone ten, muddy • ; trba3s'/ahd a little ballast, ho started. All seemed plain sailing until getting near Hammond's, when it Was found that the fence had been /Shifted across the road. Climbing over, nothing .daunted,— flop ! Jerusalem! and tbere he was .at the, bottom, not of the " deep blue sea," but a ,' ! i>ig ; trench, dug out for a culvert. However, he ; ; Arrived home eaf ely, with no bones broken. Next ' .Msus'bf •*' Buster " remarked : — " The practice of leaving works in progress on roads in this district '"' 'Without lights is highly reprehensible, more par- .' fcicularly where excavations are being made. We 'are., informed, that on one night last week, a ' accident was very nearly eventuating at a ; ciUyer.fc now being built between Hamilton and Ohaupp,' owing to no light being placed to warn nnwary travellers," Someone was heard to re:jma»rk?.:that.although newspaper men were, as a Irule, pretty hard cases and thick-skinned, it would .'-' be rather rough on them to expect that they , foundation for a concrete culvert. / jjiphiejjulvert will be known for many a long day i|as, **. $ie editor's box."