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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3820, 13 October 1883, Page 2

Our morning contemporary is inconsistent. In a sub-loader to-day on "depraved journalism" it says:—"Some littlo time since, when a man named Priestly was in custody on a charge of murder, the Auckland papers rendered themselves infamous by trying the man in their columns, and practically sentenced him, almost before his case was fairly opened beforo tho magistrates." Then, referring to the peculiarly Yankee assault committed by Dr. Harrison on the proprietor of L'Entre'Acto, the Herald proceeds to say, " AYe confess loa a half-feeling of regret that tho bl'tito who penned the article did not rcceivo ten times the punishment which appears to havo been meted out to him." AATthout knowing in the least whether Mr Wickbam was tbo author of the letter that provoked tho assault, tho Herald accuses him of writing the offensive paragraph, and next regrets that a possibly innocent man was not more severely mauled ! What is this but trying the man and sentencing him ? What is depravity in one journal is, apparently, tho highest form of virtue in tho Herald. Personally acquainted with many of the Auckland journalists wo can say for them that the most of them arc well able to teach the Herald lessons in journalism that our contemporary is sorely in need of.