THE AMENITIES OF JOURNALISM.

Evening Star, Issue 3165, 12 April 1873, Page 3

THE AMENITIES OF JOURNALISM.

Stanley Lowe, formerly Secretary to the Auckland Harbor Board, is, we are informed, now editing a New South Wales country journal. His labors do not appear to be appreciated by his brother editor of the Hill End Tim <•», who in a recent leader “goes for ” Stanley in the following forcible if not eloquent language That tadpole-like excrescence, all head (save a very puny body), just flung high and dry on the inky river—we allude to the Mudyee Times— has wriggled beneath a few truthful remarks we lately made concerning this miserable nondescript. We said that the water from the Mudgec Waterworks was impure, and this mendacious scribe (who resembles his own journal in having a big and remarkably hideous head, and nothing in it) politely applies to us the term of “liar.” It is unnecessary for us to resort to the tu quaque style of retort, because this “gentleman's’’ propensities are so well known in the scene of his labors, that to do so would bo gilding refined gold, and painting the lily ....

To a man with even the ordinary amount of brains, the application of keen satire is generally sufficient, but where we find the semblance of a human being, having his brain-pan occupied by soqie extraordinary callosity which renders him impervious to a geutle shock, smiting him "over that great mistake called a head wLh a heavy bludgeon is the only way to keep him in bounds. with us for calling him a new chum in the Mudgee district; also for styling him a sucking scribe. . . , The “new paper” —of which by the way (we use the editor’s own quotation) the mountain was in labor for an unconscionable period—has brought forth a ridiculous mouse in earnest, whose feeble squeak is beard with contempt by those who expected something great of this literary Johanna Southcote.