Unclean Telegrams

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 27, 14 August 1886, Page 2

Unclean Telegrams

♦ The messages wired from England by Eeuter's Telegraphic Company to the Colonies are daily becoming more and more useless. Our readers will have observed that "Sporting events," " Scandals in high life," " Disclosuers," with almost filthy details, are given far greater prominence than the greatest political events on which the fate of empires may depend. Twenty or thirty lines are expended in recording a cricket match, while as many words are given to convey the news that a partial civil war is raging in a portion of the British Isles. A slander about an aristocratic blackguard is narrated with a minuteness of detail disgusting in its accuracy, while movements affecting the federation of the Empire are hardly considered worthy of notic c. The newspapers of this Colony have in no instance we can recall ever given a sign that unclean pabulum was a pleasure to them or a delight to their readers. Their purity and morality have been a subject of favorable comment by every observing traveller who has visited the Colony. Yet it would appear that the persons who collate news in England for publication in New Zealand, think narritives of immorality are palatable among the Colonists. They are mistaken ; and the sooner they learn to show more discrimination, the better for themselves. We consider such messages as that recently published in connection with Lord Lonsdale an insult to the modesty and intelligence of the country.