WELLINGTON.

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

WELLINGTON.

(From our own Correspondent.) This day.

The Times —that is the would-be colonial journal—in pure stress of subject matter of colonial importance, this morning dances a fandango upon the unfortunate Wellington correspondent of the Stab. Who is he, anyhow ? My private opinion is that he is "somewhat akin to that celebrated pantheonic character who ia commonly designated as three gentlemen in oae. What has he done? He insinuated or intimated that the colonial journal wanted a subsidy for publishing a daily precis of the present Hansard; and the Times is wrath at the statement. It says, and it has a fool for its client in this instance, the mode we recommended would be to furnish day by day a sufficiently full record of the previous night's proceedings, and this account would be at the continual service of various papers throughout the colony, who would then not have to wait weeks and to wade through a tedious Mansard to get at any important debate which they might wish to publish at tolerable extent. It is unnecessary to add that our suggestion evoked the usual local distortion and,misstatement which we and Wellington people are so much accustomed to as totally to disregard, but we were scarcely prepared to find the Wellington correspondent of the Auckland Star telegraphing this distortion and thesemisstatements, with an addition, evoked from his own internal resources in the art of untruth, but so it was. In this correspondent's telegrams we find our suggestion put as a proposition :— " That the Times should be subsidised to print reports prepared by reporters, part by the Government." We are anxious to characterise this by the briefest known word expressive of an untruth. What we did say, and what we repeat is this, that the Hansard as at present published is utterly useless to the colony ; that we have not the slightest intention of doing that which circumstances will not permit, namely, giving each morning au extended report of Parliamentary proceedings ; that such an extended report "would however be far more useful and cheaper than Hansard and its reportorial staff, and that if it be required it wil 1 have to be. paid for." After that I shrivel up like a withered flower, and feel mean at having case the faintest shadow of a doubt ©n the immaculate political character, the high toned morality, and the pure and unselfish patriotism of the New Zealand Times.