A PILL FOR THE "DAILY TIMES."

Evening Star, Issue 3314, 3 October 1873, Page 3

A PILL FOR THE "DAILY TIMES."

The Daily Times of Saturday is rather severe on our Dunedin correspondent for having propagated a statement concerning the Dunedin Hospital which turned out to have no foundation in fact. For the Daily Times (of all other journals in the Colony) to read any person a lecture for misrepresenting facts, is about one of the coolest pieces of impudence ic is possible to conceive. Frobably there is not another newspaper in the i olony more addicted to haphazard comments and assertions. It only requires a reference to its tiles to enable anyone to see that we are stating a fact in writing thus, for the number of retractations and corrections it has from time to time been compelled to make is legion, not to mention the policy of reckless and wilful obstinacy that in its stubbornness it adopts as a medium of getting out of difficulties into which it has floundered, and which it would wound its amour propre to acknowledge. We recommend our contemporary to bear in mind the old axiom, that “people who live in glass houses should not throw stones.’’ Were a stone to be thrown at the glass house of the Daily Times every time that occasion justified the proceeding, the glazier would bo in very frequent requisition. In conclusion, we may just state that the rumor which our correspondent embodied in his letter was the common talk of the city, and it was owing to the publication of his letter being unavoidably delayed for a week that the statement appeared after a public denial of th - * reported occurrence had been made. — Tuapeka Times.