The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1888. Press Telegrams

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 149, 17 July 1888, Page 2

The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1888. Press Telegrams

We offer no apology to our numerous readers for the disappointment they must have felt on reading our English telegrams jn Saturday last. The valueless rubbish inflicted on newspapers by the Press Association has often been commented on, and held up to deserved ridicule by us, and we are now glad to see that other newspaper proprietors have mustered up sufficient pluck to follow our lead. We confess at once that a country journal by itself is not likely to be able to effect much in the way of a reformation, but now our "big brothers" have taken up the cudgels, it is not too much to expect that the Association will endeavor to supply less " trash and hogwash" than they have since the withdrawal of Heuter gave the proprietors a monopoly. The fact that for fourteen days we have been able to exist without European news shows that in these days of retrenchment we can do without them altogether, and await the arrival of English mail steamers. We do not mean to imply there are not daily occurring events in England and the continent of Europe, which would be of great and absorbing interest to us, but the agents of the Association do not appear to be able to collect them. They rely on a Bteriotyped system of work — a cricket match, football, horse races, glove fight, Imperial Institute, loans, and Pabnell. Sometimes a few interesting items slip in, apparently by accident. We have watched, and are waiting, with fear and trembling, to receive an account of a dog fight, and when that day comes we will cut off the Association with a shilling. When at the beginning of each month and quarter we are favored with the imperative little document, which con cisely says, " Pay on demand— /or value received (in advance)," we kno.v we have read as cool a piece of fiction as ever was found in a Shilling Dreadful. We hope the protests of so many newspapers will compel the proprietors of the Association "to consider the position" ; that they will either confess their inability to carry out their undertaking, and invite Heuter to return, or employ agents who understand the requirements of the Colonial Press.