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New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6667, 31 March 1883, Page 4

Tub highly voiced sensational story whick Lady Florence Dixie circulated sometime ago about ar. attack which she alleged was made upon her by two emissaries of tho Land League, is rapidly crumbling to pieces before the prosaics.l investigations of unromantic policeman. Ona of our London, despatches this morning states Ihr.t the Home Secretary has announced in tho House of Commons that the inquiries instituted by the police authorities into tho reported attuck havo failed to confirm the story told by that imaginative and vrratic lady. This will be no news t» those who read our comments on the first receipt cf the new 3 ol" Lady Dixie's narrative. We then discredited the whole story, and though the credulous and the gullible were shocked at our scepticism, the result has confirmed the view whick wo took of the affair, and which, as wo subsequently learnt, was the view taken geuerally by the Englisk press. The story bore on. the face of it, the indications of a clumsily concocted sensation, devised for the purpose of obtaining public notoriety, and was, a3 dramatic critics say, full of glaring improbabilities. But it served ita object. It advertised Lady Dixie aii over the world, and made her 'for a season the most talked-of woman in every quarter of tho globo. That anyone should have believed her story is only another instance of how easily the public are gulled.