WHAT AN AVERAGE REPORTER CAN DO.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 899, 14 October 1881, Page 2

WHAT AN AVERAGE REPORTER CAN DO.

There hadn't been a murder in the city for nearly two days, when the news of a butcher's wife-murder reached tho offices of the dailies the other night. A pile of Bonanza stock would not have been more heartily welcomed by the reporters, They just bounced that murder tor what it was worth. A perfect comiscation of spluttering gore flew from their pens as they worked up the imaginary details and converted maps of the Holy Land into diagrams of the " scene of the tragedy." Tho fact that tlie murdered woman left a trail of blood behind her as she fled from her home was' a splendid opportunity for " apt alliteration's artful aid." the headings next morning were a tight to behold* " The Ghastly Gash made by a Gory! Ghoul," "The Bloody Blotches made by a Barbarous Butcher's Brutality," and "The Terrible Tragedy Told by a Trail of Trickling Life-blood," are only three instances of what the average reporter can do when his brain has lain fallow for forty-eight hours. For the sake of the three or four daily sheets who each colemnly swear to having the " largest circulation," we sincerely trust that another murder will be committed before next day, and we are willing to lay any odds that our wish will be fulfilled.— Sau Francisco News letter.