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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 20, 15 September 1893, Page 11

Lord Herschell says that while English journalists sometimes allow an active imagination to assist in the narration of facts, the journalists on the other side of the Atlantic are easily first in this respect. He remembers when he was in the States reading a tele* graphic despatch (and of course everybody believes telegrams) stating that in a certain place two pigs had iwallowed some dynamite cartridge?, and then strayed near a cabin where there was a donkey. The donkey kicked one of the pigs, with the result that the pig and the donkey and the cabin were blown to atoms. The despatch added that the other pig waa still at large, and that the people were leaving the neighbourhood.