THE REPORTED DEATH OF THE QUEEN.
We are not responsible for the opinion* expressed by our correspondents,]
To the Editor. Sib,—l beg to inform your numerous readers that the recent report of the Queen’s death arose from circumstances such as have often produced similar reports. In a certain London newspaper office there is a biography of the Sovereign, which was written ten years ago, and the editor, with the provident forethought of his class, deemed it advisable that it should be revised and brought down to date. It was given out to one of the staff, and duly returned “revised and corrected.” The editor thought it would be as well to see thu article in type, and he consequently gave it out to be set up. A compositor happened to see the notice when_ it was in type, read the solemn and affecting announcement with which it opened, and immediately proceeded to disseminate the melancholy intelligence As soon as the story was fairly set a-going it travelled in all directions.—l am, &c., S. G. 0. Dunedin, February 8.
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Evening Star, Issue 3733, 9 February 1875, Page 3
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