A JOURNALISTIC SQUABBLE.

Evening Star, Issue 3411, 27 January 1874, Page 3

A JOURNALISTIC SQUABBLE.

I The * Wanganui Chronicle’s ’ existence appears td have Keen orio of vicissitude for some time past. It has changed hands during the past ‘few years' more than once, 'and now according to qhr Wanganui namesake, Chaos reigns again ” in the establishment. It,is mot -sovlong.iago but onr readers may remember ’that the original proprietor .-disof ’ the-; 'business .to/.Mr Anderson, formerly the [editor of thqff,lndependent,’ but qfterm .short run .-.the 1 Chronicle ’■ again reverted to Mjr Hutchison ,wdio .appeared to be •keeping it on merely for the sake of disposing of it again. At. the beginning of J873 it passed into the hands‘of Mr Om'skia, under whose management. it : took .the form of <a . morning paper. -. lit November l ,- Mr Duigat•sold it again tp Messrs, Tribe and Watt, and after three months these partners ; appear to have quarrelled. The Wanganui ‘Herald’ gives the following account of ie .. a^a, ' r : 7“ ,, Tribe, on Friday nig Jit having written his leader 'and'given'it' to the printers, left his offi.ee, .carefully locking Une door. • J On the following moriiliti'g ho discovered the office'broken open, and instead of his leader appearing in type, he, and those of the public who read the ‘Chronicle,’ .found a couple of patchwork .leader-, ettes, with a' few coluihns of'‘extra locals-’ 1 , making up a paper of news. T)he two ,pr - ’ p.’ietcrs then' made a dead set at the collector. % Tribe officially informs that badgered individual that- All moneys' collected"- must be paid over to him ; Mr W. H. Watt, the other proprietor, givs?s tbe ; sarne order, with tffie all important difference that the money must be paidito him..■ * i o the,matter stands, and the poor * Chronicle,’ having led a chequered, existence for so long, seems in,' danger ;.qf', total... extinction;”, After this/ appeared, Mr Watt denied in his paper that Mr Tribe ever was ,a partner in the concern ; andaccordingly the latter, gentleman writes to the ‘Herald,’ as follows: The ‘ ChrouiQle’ states that the editor of that jqurual never was a; part,proprietor in it, and gives as a reason the absurd and false stater ment that /he f never invested, one shilling in the piper.’ It is. generally known that I (Mr Tribo) am the editor referred to,, and .as. .to ;my proprietorship the .law will decide. My half of the profits for the past .three months are-in: the paper. The question of partnership, as any but a tyro knows, does not depend on whether shillings have or have hot been put into a business.” L And so this affair stood, at our latest advice from Wanganni. . .