THE GENERAL AND THE NEWS PAPER CORRESPONDENT.
In a famous passage m Pendennis Thackeray has told us that the Press " has her ambassadors m every quarter of the world," and " that her officers march along with armies ;" bufc I ("Atlas "in the World) have not yet heard even of the chiefs of the Press commanding armies. News of a curious contretemps, which at first might seem to furnish a precedent for this, comes to me from India. The name both of the general of the first divison of the Khyber column and of the correspondent of the Standard recently accompanying that column is Macpherson. Some little while ago, immediately after his expulsion by General Roberts, Macpherson the journalist was telegraphed to by his editor, Mr. Mudford, ordering him to take the next steamer to the Cape. The telegram, which, of course, bore the name of its sender, found its way into the hands not of Mr but of General Macpherson, and naturally caused that officer must wonderment as to the identity" of this Mudford, "| who took upo himself to order British field officers from one end of the world to the other at a moment's notice. Nor, surprising as it may Beem, was the mystery cleared till one or two telegrams had been exchanged between ludia and England.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 843, 24 July 1879, Page 2
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