The Globe. FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1877.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 981, 17 August 1877, Page 2

The Globe. FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1877.

TnK Lyttelton Times possesses a Wellington correspondent who appears to have received special instructions to telegraph every item of news, or gossip, likely to tell against the Government, but to furnish nothing whatever which would tend to damage the Opposition, ihe Otago Daily Times also has a Wellington correspondent whose telegrams bear a remarkable similarity to those published by our Christchurch contemporary. Indeed in most cases they are identical, and we nre guilty of no breach 'of etiquette in assuming that the same gentleman represents both journals, and, as is frequently done, sends the same message to both newspapers. On the 14th inst. the Lyttelton Times published a telegram from its Wellington correspondent containing one or two items of news of no great moment. On the same morning our Dunedin contemporaiy also published the same telegram, but with a very important addition. It was as follows : The want of discretion shown by Sir G. Grey and Mr Rees is the great safeguard of the Government. They are regular marplots. Last week Sir G. Grey was with the greatest dilliculty restrained by Mr Macandrew from tabling a direct vote of want of confidence, which if moved by him woidd have been rejected by an overwhelming majority. Mr Rees cannot possibly be kept quiet, although almost every time he speaks he does the Government good, and his own side harm. Anything would bo endured rather than give cither of these men a chance of office, and their presence in the House amounts almost to an insurance of the position of the Ministers. The non-appearance of the above passage in our Christchurch contemporary is significant. are two ways of accounting for its • omission. Either the correspondent in Wellington, knowing the character of the journals which he served, added the above damaging statement to his message to the more impartial of the two, or else it was sent to both, and the passage carefully suppressed by the Lyttelton Times. Most people here will be inclined to regard the latter as the more likely explanation. We trust the resolutions passed at tin; public meeting held in the Oddfellows' Hall will receive the favourable consideration of the Government. The demands made arc certainly reasonable, and the speeches delivered on the occasion were moderate and to the point. We hope the agitation, which has been so successfully got up throughout the colony, will be kept up till some practical result is arrived at. It would have been well had some action been taken in this matter years ago, when the public works of the colony were about to be constructed. But much yet remains to be done. No doubt large sums of money will have to be expended on repairs to our railways. Our growing traffic will create a demand for more rolling stock, and were the Government to encourage the establishment of the class of manufactures required for producing the work needed in connection with these railways, they would soon become selfsupporting. But the movement, which has been so successfully begun, must be kept going. A few public meetings held throughout the colony are not sufficient. Uuless the Government are really anxious to meet the wishes of the promoters, they will send courteous replies to the chairmen of the various meetings, and there the matter will active committee should be formed in each town in the colony, and the subject kept constantly before the Government till the demands made are as far as possible met.