Sensational Telegrams

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 76, 7 June 1884, Page 2

Sensational Telegrams

The Press Association Agents have singular ideas as to what are interesting items to collect and flash over the wires for the benefit of a suffering people. We are in the habit of taking the items as they come without comment or complaint, yet we must draw the line somewhere, and that is at the business of Licensing Committees. Our Feildirig citizens do sot care a rap as to whether or not a ! public house in Stewart's Island, or at the Three Kings, or auywhere between, these two points, gets its license to carrf on business, with the addition of a fire jf escape and a barmaid, or an upstairs bar, with a night watchman thrown in for -\ luck. Neither do we care whether a man ; has to finish his drinking by ten or eleren o'clock at night, whether in Dunedin, Chnstchurch, or Auckland, or eren the Empire City itself. All of our drinking is done at a much earlier hour, and we arr a sober people. Let the Press Association give us full particulars of murders or other grand crimes, and thereby fulfil the object of their being. Fires and other small matters, with occasional reports of Parliamentary speeches, are of secondary consideration,' and almost bearable, but the transnetiohs •of License ing Committres are' only interesting in their own towns or districts, and unworthy to be wired over -he Colony at a heavy c -si to newspaper proprietors, and to the vexation of regular newspaper readers.