LATEST SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1672, 28 June 1875, Page 3

LATEST SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

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(From our own Correspondent.) This day. The Typographical Society Attacks the Aucklaad "Star" Thefollowing effusion appeared in Saturday Dip fit's Dunedin Star : —" 1 trust in a spirit of justice to the Typographical Association, "which, through your telegraphic columns, las had its action grossly slandered and its intention purposely misrepresented by the Auckland Stab, you wM allow me, as representing the Society, to make the following reply :— "The Auckland Star has long been noted for its bitter hostility to craftsmen who assisted it to attain to its present position (although that is not much), and appears to have devoted itself to the very laudable object of ruining what should rank as firs'. in the list of trades. It has by its contemptible meanness compelled most of the respectable printers of Auckland to go elsewhere to obtain an honest livelihood, and not yet content, it seeks to poison the public mird against them by the publication, in other columns than its • own, of the basest slanders. The Star imagines, poor credulous thing, that the Otago Typographical association will send delegates to Auckland, to disseminate the doctrines of trade unionism. Heaven forbid ! The Bcum of the printing profession who vegetate in and around Auckland are beyond redemption, and their vitiated atmosphere would only contaminate a respectable class of printers who reside further South. Auckland alone has been regarded as the very sink of typographical iniquity by the trade, and is shunned by men as a fever den. It is such papers aB the Auckland Stak that disgrace the newspaper press of the present day. It is too mean to pay for ability either in the literary or mechanical departments. So in order to make it saleable it prostitutes its columns by the publication of the vilest slanders. Under the editorial 'we;'it blackens the reputation and ruins the character of some of New Zealand's best men, the latest instance being E. J. Wakefield. Writers in papers of this class are as cowardly as they are scurrilous ; as vindictive as they are contemptible, for they strike defenceless men with weapons which they know cannot be used against them. These are men who are often allowed to guide public opinion, and who vaunt themselves as leaders in the van of civilization and freedom ! O temporal 0 mores! That to allow such a state of things to exist. In conclusion, sir, I throw' back into the face of the Star, through your own correspondent, the false calumnies it has taken so much trouble to fabricate.—E. 6. Legeove, Secretary Otago Typographical Association."