An Editorial Correction.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVI, Issue 23, 9 June 1906, Page 17

A n Editorial Correction.

A certain provincial paper oibce published an appreciation of a retired g *noral who had taken up his residence in the neighbourhood Ou the day following the particular issue, the editor was surprised to receive a copy of his pup*r. together with an indignantly worded letter from the afore-mentioued general. “To refer to me, sir,” the letter began, “as ‘the boro of a hundred tights ami a Imttie scarred veteran.’ i- an insult such as I Lave never expericnc.nl in the whole of my thirty years’ -er\ice.” The editor sighed, and glam el at the copy inclosed. Too true! There, underlined in blood red. was the very phrase to which the general had referred. So. snatching up a pen. th* editor resigned himself to a letter of apology, it* which such terms a- ’an unfort limit* printer’s error” stood out couspicuoii-ly. an 1 concluded by promising an apology mil <orrection in the next issue. Thus appeased, the general awaited the ap|»earanee of the cone-ted ed tion. It came that evening, ami the hero “of a hundred fights” read these lines! “We much regret to announce that a most unfortunate error crept into our ’Appreciation of General Sir Hubert L / in it we referred to the gallant officer as *the hero of a hundred fights and a bottle-scarred veteran.' We feel quite sure that all our readers must have realised that such an allusion was far indeed from our thought-. Of course, the passage should have read. ’General Sir Hubert L is the hero of a hundred frightsand a battle-scared v.Ueran.’” A double special correction in the same journal pointed out that Hh* “r” was superfluous in the word “frights,” and. of course, should have been placed instead in the word “scared.”