TELEGRAPHING- EXTRAORDINARY.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 11, 30 August 1871, Page 2

TELEGRAPHING- EXTRAORDINARY.

We have had at all times n mawi' conviction that the " Telogopliic" of our contemporary the NeWw&a manufactured in Auckland, i'lie items of information wtfi respect to the yield and prospects of claims have been such, and so evident the intention to rig the market, that we bad an entire conviction that the mining news, at least, in the telegrams, never came from the Thames. Anything, however, like the *' howl out" iv this morning's news we did not anticipate. Tbe ' Telegraphic" is dated from Grahamstown, August 29, 8.3) p.m., and among other items of valuable information contains the following :—" As soon as the proper time comes the Caledonian mine will come to tho front again as well as ever. How soon, it would be bard to predict." This invaluable " tip" for those who are meditating on embarking in, or selling out from, the Caledonian or the Thames, should be pondered over with great anxiety. It is thoroughly reliable, and tells the latest feeling on the subject at Grahamstown ; for the telegraph wires having been broken at five o'clock, or three hours and a-half before the despatch of the telegram to the News, it was a physical impossibility for the more respectable morning papers to have got anything so late. But really, joking apart, this is scandalous. After the villainous efforts that have been made by the conductors of the News to ruin scores of poor unfortunate people by (creating a panic with reference to the Caledonians, we feel impelled to expose tbe false and lying means that have been use of to effect the dastardly purpose. It must be clear to everyone from this exposure in this morning's Neios that tbe mining telegrams that appear in the two editions of that paper are concocted in Auckland ; and so bungling is thejmanner of doing it, that the stoppage of communication was not ev<m known in the office of tlie paper. Had tbe conductor of the paper been in the habit of getting any, even the shortest telegrams, at 8.30 p.m., the non-appearance of any telegram might have led to enquiry. But it is 'perfectly clear that this deception is habitually palmed off on the public. We shall see to-day if the false telegram will be repeated in this evening's edition, or if the knowledge svhich every one now has ,of the break down of the wire and the stoppage of all communication till this morning will deter our contemporary from brazening out the audacious deception attempted o u the public. If our contemporary had the least sense of shame, we would ask him to put himself right with the public by making a clean breast of it, but we have not the least idea that we could divert him from the "ways that are dark " and the "tricks that are vain."