The Evening Star. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1871.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 403, 26 April 1871, Page 2

The Evening Star. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1871.

To some minds abuse is equally acceptable with praise. It is a recognition of their entity, and seems to remove them from the pit of nothingness. Such a spirit is that of our contemporary the Evening News. He would give his soul to be noticed even with abuse, if it would afford him tho consolation of feeling that he was recognised by our morning contemporaries. He has tried all the arts of journalism, and they are legion. Pair means and foul means, but all in vain; to his bitter chagrin they all persist in ignoring his existence. "We notice him;, but he heeds us not. Whether it is that he looks on us with contempt, and metes out to us the measure which the morning journals meet out to him, or whether it is because of a certain rough way which we have of speaking sometimes when we plage ourselves in fighting attitude; at all events he leaves us alone, and accordingly we carry on a kind of triangular duel; he pops away at one of the morning papers, and we pop at him. We wish our contemporary would turn on us, and let us have a little sport; ami though we "■'were somewhat rough with him about the blasphemy article in which he burlesqued the Saviour of Men as Mr. Stafford, we: do not mean evil to our contemporary, but only to" dispel his dismal hallucinations and-to. correct his unfortunate little habit of fibbing. But an attack from the big morning -papers is the Ultima Tkule of our contemporary's hopes, and it is amusing to see how his heart throbs with ex-

ultation in Monday's issue, at supposing lie lias attained his darling object, i'he Southern Cross had been referring In the "envious detraction" 1 hat has characterised some of the Southern journals —the Olaqo Daily Times to wife,—in treating of the new postal contract, and thus spake : " We are perfectly prepared to hear of some fresh line of obstruction being taken up by a party whose sole object it seems to be to thwart any measure indicating progress and development. Already, having exhausted the arguments against the contract, they have fallen foul of the ships themselves, the power of spite could go no further." Thereupon, our evening contemporary, with a coolness infinitely amusing, takes the charge to himself. He assumes that at length the morning papers has recognised its existence, and with a calm dignity that ill conceals the exultant delight, discourses thus :— " If it answers the Cross's purpose to rail at us for getting earlier and better information than that journal does, and for publishing it earlier, its conductors are quite willing to do so."

The force of cool impudence could no further go. We desire, however, to reassure the troubled spirit of our contemporary. It does not appear to have been the intention of the Cross to rail at our contemporary, the whole context having reference to Southern journals; and we think he may rest with confidence in the belief that neither of the local morning papers will do him any harm in bringing any form of railing accusation against him.