The Evening Star. TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1871.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 468, 11 July 1871, Page 2

The Evening Star.

TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1871.

" For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance,

And the good that we can do.

Owing to the magnificent pyrotechnic display with which the appearance of the Morning News was ushered in, we have been interested in noting the doings of this prodigy in journalism. " It will be," said the prospectus, " a Colonial, a .New Zealand journal: not like the other morning papers, a merely Provincial, or Auckland paper." "In politics and commerce it will be a leader of public opinion in Auckland, not a follower in the wake of others. If not a sun, it will be no satellite. In all that concerns philanthropy, social science, and public morals, it will ever be in-the foremost rank. In literature and general news it will be second to no.colonial journal." With the exception of our own mock prospectus respecting tho issuo of the " Morning Star," we have not seen in ;iny New Zealand journal such a jumble of high falutin spread-eagleism and bombastical nonsense, as in the stupendous, rhetorical, rlmpaotlicid, convulsions of our littlo contemporary, the livening News, when speaking of the coming wonder. We have to-day spent an hour in looking into the subject, comparing the JHceninq News of yesterday with tho Monting News of yesterday and to-day, and on our journalistic honor we submit a true account to our readers. Yesterday's Evening News contains six columns and athird of what may be called reading matter, aud we give our assurance that with tiie exception of one paragraph of nine lines and three words, every line and every word appear in the Morning News. That paragraph is^the first of the news of the day, and is an extract from the Thames Adoertiser with reference to the death of Mrs. M;iunsell.> "We have not found it in tho morning edition. "With this exception, there is not one word in the rending matter of the evening paper I h ;bis not reproduced, and generally v. ith-typographical errors,and all in the columns of the morning one. Leader and locals, extracts, Thames news, and all are reproduced word for word aud sentence for sentence. Even tho advertisements are fur the most part the same. In the Thames telegraphic, the two editions dovetail, the evening paper giving the telegrams lilted bodily from the morning paper, and a few besides, while the succeeding morning edition [gives those few with a few additional, which are to be reproduced in the evening edition succeeding; all producing an entanglement of " latest telegrams," which it ia given to few men to be able to unravel, In one telegram wo find indeed a correction. Tho evening paper says, " Caledonians quoted at £il2, now selling at £110." The same words lifted into'the morning paper appear as " Caledonians quoted at £112, now selling at £130," showing the " reliable" character of statements which are calculated to so affect the share market.

It may be said that what our contemporary is pleased to do is not'our. business. . To- this we demur. The existence of the Morning News was boastfully inado a protest agaiusfc the inferior journalism of the city, and, after the flourish of trumpets with which" its advent to the ranks of journalism was heralded, we are challenged to compare its promises and performances ; and where we find tho Evening JNews, in its entirety, with the exception of nine lines and three words re-hashed and served up to the public under the name of the Morning News, we are irresistibly impelled to denounce this mongrel thing as the most disreputable parody on journalism that has attempted yet to foist itseli on tho New Zealand public