The Globe. SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1875.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 289, 15 May 1875, Page 2

The Globe. SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1875.

That wonderful institution the " Press Agency" is supposed to supply the difierent journals of New Zealand, the proprietors of which subscribe to the Agency, with the very latest news. Let us give an instance of the way in which they carry out their contract with the numerous journals which support them. The Australian mails by the Tararua were delivered here on Thursday evening last, and among the papers thus delivered was the Australasian of May Ist. This paper is almost universally read in Christchurch, and no one can enter an hotel in the place, without seeing it. In the issue of May Ist there was an account from the Fiji Islands of a number of earthquakes, and other horrors which had happened in the group lately. Yesterday (Friday) the bright idea of telegraphing this news from Auckland to this island was carried out, and consequently we received a long telegram containing the paragraph from the Australasian to which we have alluded. We were in doubt at first as to whether to publish the telegram or to consign it to the waste paper basket, but we finally decided to publish it. We most decidedly object, however, to being supplied at telegraphic rates with news that we can obtain from our files, the said files having been delivered. It is not fair to the proprietors of the newspapers that they should be compelled to spend money on telegrams that are absolutely useless, and the persons who send such items as we have mentioned are evidently incompetent to fill the offices they have been placed in. That the Messrs Brogden, or Mr J. Brogden, and the manager, Captain Holt, are not to be moved by the complaints of any of the different newspapers which they supply with telegraphic news (?), we are well aware, and the fact remains that until the different journals combine together and insist on the proper management of the Agency, they will remain at the mercy of an institution which sends such items as we have mentioned. It is idle to suppose that such a state of things can last, and the means of remedy lie in combination. This must come, sooner or later, and we think the public will agree with us when we say the sooner the better.