THAT AWFUL CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3965, 17 November 1891, Page 2

THAT AWFUL CABLE.

The names of racehorses which are caMed out from London as the winners of races, constitute a veritable pitfall for the interpreters of the cablegrams. The Melbourne Argus the other Hay reported the sending of a steamer to Cloncurry, in North Queensland, and lately has converted the leading horses in an English race into the name of an American bandit chieftainess. ' Signorina' won the Plate at the Manchester meeting ; ' Orme' was second, and ' Martogon' third; and this, by some peculiar finality, appears in the Argus as «Signorina Orinc Martagon' sacking a town in Missouri. Not very long ago a Brisbane journalist got mixed over three winning horses, 'Voracity' ' Tyrone' add Lobster.' Running them on to a previous subject, he astonished his readers by announcing that Mr Balfour, in a public address, had charged Mr Parnell with having 'exhibited the voracity of a Tyrone lobster.' , A New Zealand sub-editor, finding the names * Highland Chief,' •M'Alpine' and «Chiselhurst' given bim in his cable message, took them to mean as ' The distinguished Highland chief, M'Alpine, has been paying a visit to the Empress Eugenie at Chiselhurst.' It may be a good thing sometimes when cable messages do go astray, for it precludes the possibility of falling into blunders.