ONE OF THE BEST OF JOURNALISTS.

North Otago Times, 3 August 1903, Page 4

ONE OF THE BEST OF JOURNALISTS.

"Tay Pay" is popular among literarj men. • On a recent Saturday evening hj was the guest of the "flew Vagabonds/ and Mr W. Pefct Ridgo, who occupied the chair, made roferonoe in a wittj speech to the assistance Mr O Connor had giveh to literature by helping to rouder it attractive to the people through the medium of T.P.'s weekly, But Mr T. P. O'Connor had other claims 011 literary men. "Ho was an artist in criticism, with a kick of hitting tho I nail on tho head—not at all a bad | place 011 which to hit a nail. >To bo I quite candid, one must admit that lie [was a member of Parliament, but they I wore not going to worry about that on j such an occasion, It was tho kind of j thing that; might happen to tho best oi I them." Speaking of the worries of j editors, the genial chairman further j said I—"Some people had an idea that | editoi'3 wero men with a limited vocabulary, and wero only able to intimate reigret that they wero 'unable to inaktf ;use of tho enclosed.' Further aojquaintanco had disclosed the fact that [editors o'ould become extremely vol- ': übjo. He heard an editor talking tlia i other night to a cabman who had overcharged him, and he would not liko to repeat tho languajjo he used. The edii tor, like tlio Magistrate, had a trying life, ' Young men from the north called at his office to ascertain whon hu | proposed to givo up his situation. (Ladies complained that their names had I riot appeared latoly in his journals, and ■threatened to use the laws of libel in j order to ascertain the causo. Too of-" 1 ton new contributors would send diverting Limericks to "The Times," serious poems about "the Sultan to "The j Sporting Lifo," and vivacious accounts lot race mootings to "The Daily News,", jand then, of course, in of failure jlhey blamed the editors. 1 I 'MB UPPER KM DISPUTE, ! ■ 1, 'v | Brussels, 'April 20—The "MmwemeM j Gcograpliiquo" publishes lottora signed I by Sir Francis Phmkott, formerly Brij tisli 'Minister here, and Baron Van j Btovoldo, Seorotary of tJie Congo Prca Stato Government, which it states wero I attached to tha Oonventioai of 1894, bu| - J woro kept secret. The conitraoting parj tics stated tliat tliey did not ignow | the dails of Turkoy and Egypt in the i basin of the Upper Nile, j After tho Fashoda affair and tb( j Anglo-French Convention of Maroh 21 j 1899, tlio British Minister here notified ; I tlio Congo Free State that Egypt r& | served all her rights, .and .this was the | origin of tha conflict with, Great Britain' j Tho Free Stato objected to the deolara- } tion, and qssertod that tlio Sudan waj j! Egyptian, and becaiino independent, in I! virtue of General Gordon's nroclaina- ! I tion of 1884. l{ ; Tho Free Stato also contonded that ; : tlio Anglo-Frqiicli .Convention of 1899 i gave it back its rights on tho Mr el i Gliaznl, accorded by the treaty of 18D4, j- It is bdieved hero that England will I : leave the Freo State in possession oj : tho Lado enclavo and tho Mahagi terri tory.