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Evening Star, Issue 4164, 1 July 1876, Page 2

Our special telegraphic report from Wellington contains an extract from the 'Argus,' a Wellington paper, charging the Dunedin papers with suppressing alleged information given by Captain Wadde.ll, of the City of San Francisco, respecting the striking of that vessel on the bar in coming in and going out of Port Chalmers. The folly of the accusation is manifest enough when it is considered that far more injury to the port would result were such a vessel damaged or wrecked within its precincts than by honestly giving currency to the depth of water that nature has decreed a vessel should draw in order to enter it with safety. But that the statement should receive an authoritative contradiction, we telegraphed at once to our shipping reporter asking if that information had been given to him, as he had not transmitted to ns anything of the kind in his shipping report. The following is hid reply :—"Captain Waddell did not inform mo. .Report was furnished by the purser, who di d not mention any thing about her touch - ing.'' We have no doubt our morning contemporaries will equally be able to contradict the statement, which we venture to say has no other foundation than in that absurd jealousy-which the dwellers in Wellington bear to other ports in the Colony. If they understood the natural causes that lead to commercial prosperity, they would look beyond the limits of their harbor, which net doubt is a fine and commodious one. So is Milford Sound, with which Wellington Harbor cannot compare for a moment. But ships only go to harbors which give them employment for import and export purposes, and when Wellington stands in a like relation to a

busy and large population as Port Chalmers does, »n the envy and petty jealousies that now disfigure the columns of its fledgeling journals will be forgotten. That that time may very soon arrive We sincerely hope, for when it takes place there will have been a proportionate advance in Otago, "Wc consider there is nothing to be gained in reputation and much to be lost by suppression of facts so palpable that hundreds of seafaring men are acquainted with them, and none but babies would imagine that by keeping silence on such a subject a community can be profited. The folly, envy, and malice of the statement in the ' Argus ' are so transparent that were the community as well acquainted with the tacts as ourselves we should have thought them unworthy of notice.