TELEGRAPHING.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 552, 17 October 1871, Page 2

TELEGRAPHING.

Wb clip the following from tlie EawJce's Bay Herald. It is in the same spirit as many other allusions to Mr. Montrose's management of the New Zealand Agency of Greville and Co., which we find in the Southern papers. We see that the same "horrible blunder had been, committed" in a good many cases, and the Wellington Independent published as news como by the Tararua, from Melbourne, the same telegraphic summary which had been received the previous month. These " horrible blunders," together with the strong political bias which Mr. Montroseappears to show for the present Government evon when transmitting messages to the Opposition Press, are something different from the correctness and impartially that characterised Greville and Co. in Australia. Strongly as we hold with the correctness of the policy of the present Government, we do not like this, as it cannot really benefit the Ministry, _ and needlessly irritates the Opposition. But a few weeks ago we saw telegraphed by Greville and 30., and inserted in all the papers down South, the statement that the New Zealand Herald accused the Thames correspondent of the Cross with being in league with certain sharebrokers, and working the paper to rig the market. Our readers will recollect that the only foundation for this was one or two letters in our two morning contemporaries, in which correspondents indulged in the tv quoque style of argument. It is probable that the movement among our Southern contemporaries will be a successful one.

Geevillb's BLtrNDKBiNG. —A number o our subscribers having inquired why wef refrained from publishing the news received at Hokitikft by the Tararua on Saturday, we hare to state in explanation, that later news than that received on that morning had been published by us more than a month ago, and we therefore consigned Grerille's telegrams to our waste paper basket. We applied to Iho central agency for an explanation, but all we learnt was that a " horrible blunder had been committed." Hearing no further from Greville and Co., we applied to our own correspondent in Wellington, who furnished us with the news to be found in nnother column. The blundering manner in which the English news telegrams are rompiled and transmitted by Greville and 00. to the New Zealand press generally, must bring home to proprietors of newspapers the absolute necessity of immediate steps being taken to remedy the evil. The system adopted by that Company in Now Zealand has evidently broken down through sheer incompetency on the part of the general manager and his agents. This is exceedingly to be regretted, especially when we learn that the same Company (under better management) gives great satisfaction to the press in Australia. As a majority of the proprietors and editors of the leading newspapers are at present congregated at Wellington, we would suggest to them the advisability of meeting anr.f organising a cheaper, more efficient, and more reliable system, than the hitherto expensive and wretched one of Greville & Co.