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Evening Star, Issue 3915, 10 September 1875, Page 2

Our morning contemporary i he 'Guard an,' in a tone of complaint such an m glit be pourod forth by "The trnaic muse wkh the. toothache," complains that the 'Daily Time 3' an I Kyening Star were enabled to publish as an extra the telegraphic news via San Francisco yesterday morning, although the special reporter of the ' Guardian ' presented his copy at 11 o'clock in the forenoon. As this might have happened to any "special reporter "—our own for instance had ho been tardy in his movementsthe proper remedy is to give him the spur, not to ask the public to condole with the slow coaches of the ' Guardian' nor to whine about not being able to publish what it was a physical impossibility for th = Telegraph i'epa tment to transmit. 'jho matter would not be worth notice were it not for the uusivprose tation that columns <f news are left out of the morning papers because of the wires being used for this journal. This is simply incorrect an the three papers, except from o.\-ociai reporters, revive the srime telegraphic atone transmission by wire;'and uufortu nately the I'.vkning Stau, for its special mesiau-es, has commonly to pay f-oinothing like live times th-* am.nat thai, the morning papers are charged for a similar number of Avords, because of Ix ing sent during the day. We see no reaaon why the public ,-hould ba doomed to >ve.it :u»- ■..■...: which the '.'"aiiy Times' or the t.vj r-t.-> le to p:iblihb, uutii the ' Guardhu ' lias had the iir«i word. On the principle of the widtat diffusion, the

St.ar 13 clearly entitled to,-priority, and, in or cr to secure it, pays BeaWly for it. At a, piece of iuformation to the editor of the 'Guardian,' wc may state that the message tor the ' Times' and Star was presented at the office at Auckland at 10 30 a.m.— half-an-hour before the ' Guardian's' special put in as appearance.