AM AMATEUR ENGRAVER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4162, 12 July 1892, Page 2

AM AMATEUR ENGRAVER.

The Late Sir Harry Atkinson,

The Kumara Times some days ago embellished its columns with a 'out' which it stated was an original sketch by an amateur of the late Sir Harry Atkinson. Tho other West Coast papers, probably jealous of their contemporary's enterprise, have expejed all their inventive genius in deling terms of abuse to apply to theihW tration, which seems to have put their backs up terribly. The Grey Star "* describes it as'a few lines scotched upon wood,' The Reefton Guardian says the'cut' has ' one advantage, that by B n extra scratch or two it can bo made to satisfy the Times' engraver as boing a representation of any important personage, from Julius. Cieaar to Dick Se'ddon.' The port News says, ' For sheer hideousness, a woodcut in the Kumara Times, professing to be the likeness of ibelate Sir Harry Atkinson, takes the cake. The thing is almost horrible enough {o oiiuse the deceased statesmen to rise from his grave in protest against such an outrage.' The Inanguhua Times describes the cut as a pictorial libel which ia alleged to be a portrait of the iate Sir H. Atkinson and says that a r paper which would inflict such a smudge upon its waders must have a very low opinion of their intelligence. The Brunner News: 'Tho Kumara Times has unearthed an " Aj(|fcur Engraver," and the' Times is proudof bis workmanship, The first picture represents Sir Harry Atkinson. It iB well we were told it did so, What fantastic trioks may be played with the faco divine I' This is another case of a man waking up and finding himself lamoup. ■