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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVI, Issue 22, 2 June 1906, Page 14

When an editor has printed an untrue story. he should be willing to retract it. Some editors, though—benighted, stupid fellows—will print no denials unless the truths they have uttered have been libellous. If they have not been libellous, the editors refuse to make denial. They pretend to believe that their stories have been true, after all. they are as pigheaded as the Taranaki editor who issued an obituary of the leading citizen of his town. When the leading citizen called at the office the next morning and requested that the report of his death be denied, the editor refused to accommodate him. "We are never wrong here,” he said, in a lordly way. "We never print denials or retractions in cur sheet.” But the leading citizen protested and protested, and finally the editor said: “No use talking, sir; we ean't deny your death. The best we can do for you is to put you in to-morrow’s list of births.”