NEWSPAPER CRITICS.

Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 68, 28 October 1875, Page 5

NEWSPAPER CRITICS.

TO THB EDITOR. Slß,— Daring the course of the debate? in '-^3 House of Representatives, your reader* ;•*• have been struck with the very courteous > most consistent wanner an all powerful maj. . have invariably treated a small mincnty fr».* ■ •*■* Knight of Kawan to -the most obscure of . party, who ha* the great impertineuee to ' .. different views, amd the pf eeumption to thia"** . Government should be tmrrimelled by contu • . tionel forms, hy the wishes of the people, o. honor or honesty of purpose. They must r . have remarked the very honorable position t*> • up by that portion of tho Press whose creed j« follow the trump card, and by playing the kr, endeavoring to catch the ten, and thereby mi»g the game, whose motto is, " Heads j « tails you We."

I observe tho ' Guardian ' has been payinMurrajf, the member for Bruce, very paru*r. attention, according to its artistic tastes, deming his manners and personal appearance, * informing its readers that it has di.>oovered - "i he has been devoting himself to the study o' "■ Gazette', the brands of hr-rses, poundke* f<notices, and district rnti-ii, which-- are HUbjec * dearer to him than any information d«ri-> from books and newspaper* ; etna tauug bo \. < not wonder he stood up so manfully for tW tention ofthe ' Gaeette,' and so nn in *H,e style. As I could not see how suoh tnah cointerest the readers of the ' Gii-oiiis-in'. «•*•• them with common sense, and belie\ing < matter of taste it would be better unwi uf <•« betook myself to Hansard, and think I hnvr covered the cluo to this attempt at a stab it. back. In a debate on the continuance of publication of the ' Gatt*tte', after a passu . . arms with one of the creatures of the 'Guar.' Mr Murray instanced a newspaper he kneDunedin which was given away for nothing, was found to be too dear at the price, aa th< matter it contained worth reading was co froih the ' Gaeette'. 'Phis 1 think must hay * set the mental equilibrium of the august in*"* dual. I also made the discovery that Mr Ma. r speeches contrasted most favorably with i* \ I un, <tc,