A correspondent of the Canterbury! Press who, under an ill-chosen title, writes some of the most witty things written in the Southern Hemisphere, gives the fol lowing description of his brief experience as a " gentleman of the Press":— J. thought that reporting was easy enough, but having tiied it I can assure you that it is just the very reverse. I rubbed along fairly enough myself, but I got a bit mixed up after all. I commenced m the 1 morning by putting about a ream of reporting paper in each pocket, which gave me the appearance of a journalistic Issachar. I borrowed shillings from various members of the staff, to which I felt it an honor to belong, and made a start. I started by standing in a graceful attitude at the door of the Press office. As the spotting correspondents say, I f'got away very badly," for while stand ing there, a lean-looking party, with a face like a sulky morepork walked up and asked why on earth he hadn't got his Press that morning. Imitating as well as I could that suave manner for which your employes are so justly famous, I told him that it was no affair of mine ; that I was nVt connected in any way with the " run ners'"; department, but that I would have the boy drawn and quartered be fore mid-day. Contrary to my expectation he did not ask me what I was going to have to drink, but took his name off the subscribers' list, and called me. a chattering idiot. I next went spar-gan : dering, by which J mean I travelled about. I asked eve;yone I met, "What's the riews?'' : And everybody answered, "Well, nothing fresh," By the living jingo, I thought, if this is to be it, I shall sub-let this Job, I always had thought that picking tip news was as easy as shelling peas, but here was I, after four mortal hours, without a blessed word. Why did not some good-natured citizen set his place on ; fire, or murder his wife and family, and bring peace to the soul of a striving reporter. I was about to return empty-handed, a sadder but not a wiser man, when I met old Slobberflink3, who told me that some new sheep had arrived of a rather superior breed. 