THEY HAVE THEIR REWARD.

Evening Star, Issue 4012, 5 January 1876, Page 3

THEY HAVE THEIR REWARD.

To the Editor, Sib, —“ Querist .” in your yesterday’s issue under the beading, “They have their Reward,” exposes a case of “ jobbery and corruption,” coupled with the names of Messrs Reed and Brett of Auckland. The assertion—for it is more than insinuation—is that the contract for the printing of the ‘Provincial Government Gazette ’ has been given them, or rather their representatives in Dunedin, for politicaljreasons. Your correspondent says, ‘ ‘ I now hearit reported that Messrs Reed and Brett, the proprietors of the .proposed opposition evening paper, have been appointed publishers of the ‘ Provincial Government Gazette,’ thus superseding—aud as far asl can learn without rhyme or reason—the late publishers, Messrs Coulls and Culling,” and he calls on the “exponents of public opinion to investigate” this piece of villainy and expose it in its true colors. Allow me, sir, an a member of the offending firm, to say that we got the contract—as Government contracts are usually said to be given—became our tender was the lowest, and that by a large amount. f do not know if there Jr any other test applied in Dunedin. We be’ieve we are as: good - looking as the other tenderers, and we are ready to jump them wrestle them, or fight them, or dance a Highland fling, or play the bag-pipes. Pleaie, sir, tell us what are the conditions in Government contracts?—l am, &c.. One of the fibm op Reed.and Bbett. [Messrs Coulls aud Culling write to us on the same subject; aud request us to state that they were net the authors of the letter signed “Enquirer,” nor do they know anything about it,]