AN ADVERTISING GOAK.

Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1150, 13 February 1874, Page 4

AN ADVERTISING GOAK.

It may be within the recollection of many of our readers that a few months ago Mr Henry Young, the well-known draper of Greymouth, published as an advertisement an ingenious skit upon the Tichborne trial. The advertisment referred to cantained an account of an imaginary colloquy between the Chief Justice and Mr Hawkins, the Claimant's counsel, during which both advocate and judge were represented as uniting in the most nattering allusion to the quality and cut of Mr Young's celebrated outfit This skit was published in the Greymouth Argus, and a copy of that journal having found its way to the New York Herald the following paragraph from that paper is the result. The Herald says : —" We wonder where the claimant will turn up next besides the Australias and South America ? By the Grey Eiver Argus published in Greymouth, N.Z., we observe that Mr Arthur Orton, the soi distant aspirant to the Tichborne estates, has, during his wanderings, visited the establishment of Henry Young, of that town, and procured from him a suit of clothes, which he considered irreproachable as regards their fit, &c. This caused the prosecuting counsel to inquire if he (the Claimant) considered they tended to make him at all resemble the real Baronet (Sir Roger). This is another instance of the ready wit of MiHawkins, which we have before noticed during the progress of this protracted trial." Whether the Herald has really swallowed the joke or is satirical it is not easy to say. It is needless however to add that the Claimant was never in Greymouth. But Mr Young has carried his point, and his name will henceforth be associated with the '• close" of this remarkable trial.