Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1872.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1514, 21 December 1872, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1872.

It is a very geneial practice of editors to amplify their telegrams before publication, to soften the abrupt phraseology |n which they are usually written, and to supply omitted details. That considerable caution is necessary in so doing will be seen by the following telegram from an Auckland evening paper, which bears evident signs of amplification ; —" Michael Brickley, one of the seamen belonging to the ill-fated ship the 'City of Newcastle] managed to swim ashore, aitev thirty-six hours' exposure. The boat capsized, and Brickley swam to u rough coasi, and lay among the all night without clothes. The next morning he was obliged to swim miles along the coast before he could find a landing place. He U now lying sick at Moe angiaiigi/' After so prodigious a swim *—something like two hundred miles in thirty six hours—the sickness would not be surprising. A telegram m one of the morning paper?, relating to the game affair, contains a lingular blunder : Bucknell, the sailor belonging to the barque 'BallaraV who drifted out to sea in ihe pilot boat on Thursday, was found thirty miles off the coast." No tyevson reading the two aceountM could suppose ihetu to relate to the same incident;, the material particulars are all at variance.. The advantages of the telegraphic system arc accompanied by finally drawbacks; and early intelligence fc. seej&sed. at a great ts&tti&ce ©f aeeu>