The Feilding Star. SATURDAY, APEIL 9, 1892. See how these "Editors" Love One Another

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 121, 9 April 1892, Page 2

The Feilding Star. SATURDAY, APEIL 9, 1892. See how these "Editors" Love One Another

Tins is the polite and gentlemanly way in which the editor of the N.Z. Times gibbets his editorial brother (if tho tost : " 6V« per coll, is not a pleasant, verdict for a journalist who has hud rope enough allowed him. But there is no other verdict possible in the present instance. We leave him dangling in the breeze of his own verosity, hooted at by his owd political allies aa a spectacle for gods and raon. The only journal that never " misleads," that only lives to expose the " misleading " of other journals ; that journal has become the dreadful example of blundering ignorance and persistently insensate folly of vituperation. Sus per coll, on a gallows of his own manufacture, with Parliament and people laughing inextinguishable laughter ! What a tragedy for a reputation !" No doubt ho Editor of the Post could have quoted back that : "As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool." What he did say was as follows, and we do think he scores off his opponent : — " Our morniDg contemporary is very wild because we have placed it and Mr Seddod between the horns of a dilemma. It absolutely rages, and of course, waxes abusive; but that we can overlook. Nor need we complain of disingeuuousaess on its part, for that is habitual. The Times may rage and rave as it likes, but the facts remain as we have put them, and not one word of explanation has been given to show that our remarks on the transaction disclosed by Mr Seddon at Palmerston were incorrect or without justification.

sections has paid in rates £66 19s Bd, while the total expenditure on the ' road, including the metalling contract, j which the Board has not yet paid for, amounts to only £34. This piece of road is the only access the ratepayer has to his land. Further, although this road was not included in the Schedule of Works when the loan was I obtained to make roads in the Harbor Board Block, the rates collected from ( these sections help to pay the interest i on the said loan, and will have to do so for many years to come. The rate per annum last year was a few shillings over £11, which, with the increased valuation, will now amount to something like £15. Our correspondent must confess, in the face of this straight-forward statement, that his strictures were entirely undeserved, as they were based on false premises. [Since the above was in type we have received a letter on the subject from Mr G. R. Lucas.]

In our report of the proceedings of the Borough Council it will be seen it was resolved, that as the Council cannot at present afford the money necessary to put down pipes in the Manchester street drain, the Clerk of Works prepare specifications for a wooden drain instead. Of course this does not commit the Council to anything, but still we would urge upon the residents in the neighbourhood in question to consider whether they will permit a wooden drain to be laid. Our reason for objecting is that wherever these wooden drains are Used, SO Certainly does diphtheria among children and typhoid fever among adults make their dread appearance. In our opinion it would be much better to wait for another year or until the Council is in funds, and then put down the less dangerous pipes. Feilding is now one of the most healthy towns in the colony and it should be the enI deavour if every resident to keep it so.

The Commissioner of Taxes has an important announcement in to-day on the subject o£ forms of Return of Incomes. Persons whose total net incometdoes not exceed £200 need not send in returns for income. For other particulars see the advertisement.