GOOD OLD DIPSO!

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12177, 19 March 1909, Page 3

GOOD OLD DIPSO!

Another of oar Brisbane newspaper ooterio in thoso faraway days was Harry Cargill, "The Dipso," soWtimes SMb editor (I think) of the "Bulletin," on? of the keenest and most effective paragraphists ] ever knew, a journalist of extraordinary quality. Cargill drank consistently a great deal more than was good for him, but he always maintained that that was his affair"; and to the x?nd he turned out an extraordinary quantity of work. His brilliant paragraphs wore always terse, luminous, and full of vital meat. He was a man of many adventures, and misadventures not a.few. It was he who, on a memorable occasion, shocked half to death ths soberish ,md somnolent Legislative Council of South Australia. Cargill was reporting Parliament for one of the "great" dailies, and I suppose that the respectability of his position got somehow on his nerves. ''I mov<? 3 'J said tlio leader of that grave assembly, "I mjive that the House at its rising adjourn .till next Tuseday at 7.30". "And I move," said Harry Cargill, from the Press Gallery, "I.move that the House at ij;s rising do adjourn for fifty bally years!" Strange as it may soem, Cargill left his paper that very day. Queer soiheidence.