GENERAL GOVERNMENT RETORTING.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IX, Issue 480, 30 May 1867, Page 1

GENERAL GOVERNMENT RETORTING.

jMesses. Stafford & Co., proprietor' lof the General Government printing !establishment at \Veihnirtou nave, as we are informed by circular, just added to their already extensive printing ami .. .1 .1 11;.;.) aa tci iidiiig CUtiCCIU LliC HUUiiiGijai branch of a reporting staff, by whose means they intend, d ring the an j preaching session of the General Asjsemblv. to nrucure for nubiicaiion full 1 | reports of all the speeches made in the | upper and lower chambers of the ;Council. Uf course this is to be done jat the expense of the colony, and they seem to have some anticipation that jit will meet with the approbation of j tire newspaper proprietors ami their ! consequent support. The circular wc have alluded to has, it appears, been sent to the proprietors of the various newspapers in the colony—ourselves, | of course, included—and contains, as

Uvill be seem, a statement of the iutenitions of the parties and the terms rejquired, as lolluws : I ymruu.’ J Culuiiiai .'verctanks Qdhv, I i-kh JM;iv, 1907j _ Si::,—7he Guvcniwi-.Gii has h:ui under hs cunj sidci aUuu liie ii 'hie ol iuacciiraU' rr|joro o; I the tlubales ut bu-h m ihe dKim, [ol tile Uenef.ti A:-.h'i:;'j.'., mid, wua iu,„ view, |Making arran > u r i , aieat> ;■» crua-t* a. slanG.-a-i i\ - |})uri;:iu f Mai!, aiid have the reports prmte I irm u jday iu day at the (JmvnmuMil iViiilin/ Oliiee. , ; ‘ :il diree'.e Ily .Mr SlalKnai to inlonn \mi that phe GinfmiaeJit woul 1 lie wi!li:ur to drover or i’dii'iaddid' deiiU’D-a t; IC jiiV.vihi:.;- ea ‘i'liree iiMiiiJs , Lit; :i w,. -lieica ihr so-ion m ! cum- ul it i!,..h j)..;- t. j Veo li.-' a «wk in lie ri«. of a trial M-We. ki;. i a. a, ! '"".o o;;e! Ol : in t!io ca-o nt a nvoUy paper. jAlai 1.1 :i) 1.1 ive•<.•>! yet) lo hr #*»t ,-r.muii t» iti.c til'!.at.-s Oil ih.ea Jonas on aotituu;' the jiIAWKi, s Bt,l 'i'lMl.s la".', n Oipor. i liau U.e lienor to bo, Xo,, I d’. Gl.sli-il;.\ K, | L’r.iior Soorolary, i Now we Live no liesitatiou in djclaring for ourselves, ami the whole IColonial press generally, that tin ipropesals ol the Government will lie

rejected, and their scheme, iu conge uaetioe must prove an entire failure ; very few in Ped, if any, of the papeis ■vi i adopt ilu-iii, for the simple reason that tlitre are hut ft w whose space is capable ed aihmitiii'f tin* publication m more than a condensed outline, or abstract of the speeches made iu Council, and those widen are able will ho inclined to ciup! y their own reporters, rather than take upon trust a report :urtitshed by the Government itself. .Again there are with lew exceptions, no readers amongst the general public who care for more than an abstract ot the debates, and who if full report? were furnisuej, would read them 01 accept them in preference to such abstracts ; neither are there ant - journals, so to speak that will bo willing to incur an umiccossaiy expense iu paviim tor that which in anything short of the full reports furnished by the Govern.

iment, is not copyright, and may for all their purposes be compiled hum the exchanges received per each steam jvessel, and winch usually reach the ! office through a shipping reporter some [hours before the delivery of the mails | which would bring them the slips sent jfrom the Government office. Indeed iin such a case as our own, it would be j far better to send a special reporter, on i whom wo could depend, to the council, I one that would understand precisely ! what nortion of tin; debates would be suitable for our columns and acceptable to our readers, and who would transmit such reports in a state fit to place at once in the hands of the compositor, than to incur the expense of procuring the lull reports trout the Government, which would rc-ijuire much study, condensing. and re-writing, before they i would Oe so fitted.

We may, however be permitted to make a suggestion to the enterprising originators of the scheme, which isj weii worth their consideration, ami! ■which we f-el assured would answer,; ;or at all events he much more likely do succeed than that which they pro-o-i-s-atv of the eonittoGiiim uf the matter ; J 1 ' ” I h-’I these r.-ports, on the part of ail thej |journais ci the ccdony, thus effecting an j economy .jf labor • and when we Come | to the consideration of the subject, il jdoes seem to he a great waste of time MU the numerous printing offices ot the Icolony, to repeat the operation already | performed by the government printers, iof picking up ami arranging hundredsj W thousands of small bits of metal.j | when a little more work on the panj

of the government hands, a good ma chiue or two, aiul some stereotyping, nutliiug more than is performed daih in the leading establishments at home ; would render the whole of such repeti dun unnecessary. Gar proposal G that the Government shall publish this matter in the fo nu of supplements to ail the various journals of the culonv, and forward them by each m.dl steamer in parcels ready tor delivery by each proprietor to his subscribers. This l>lau it adopted will ellect nn enormous saving of time as well as of labor, and would also ensure uniformity and free dom from all the errors which are apt to creep into a reprint in spite of all tincare of editors and readers. Tw, uid he a money saving as well, for the copies could he supplied at per thoii~and, by tin* Government at a charge hut. little in excess of the cost of the

paper on widen they may be printed. Matters of detail cmild he easily arranged. Two, oral m st three editions ■ d different sized pages only would be required to suit the standard pages of all the colonial journals, and the same composition would serve for ,dl, as after the stereos of the larger forms were taken a new making up could be done tor the smaller sizes, and an occasional change of heading as the requisite .lumber uf sheets for each journal were thrown off, this is nearly all that is needed to complete the scheme, and acceptable to the Press of the Colony. Seriously we cannot approve of [lnaction taken by the Government in its relation to the Colonial press. They have established an opposition fastness, to the injury of the trade, and not to tiie ad vantage of the Colony. Mo one would lor a moment

■ suppose that a Government could establish and maintain a business of the bind fur the same cost as the work it accomplishes could be performed if submitted to competition in open market, by tender and contract; and, even if it could, it is unjust to a class which, of all others, most, deserves consideration at the bauds of ti;e Government. —whose labors are pre-eminently for the jiubiic good, whose diiluuhits ami risks are so great as those of the newspaper proprietors, and meet, with so small a return. Instead ul the opposition oflered to the press by Mr Stafford and his Government, the proper course to pursue would be the opposite, —one calculated to encourage and develop its capabilities as a public institution. Such a course would be

jad-'pU'd by an enlightened Govern' Imeut, who would at once abolish its jown monopoly, submit its work to icompelitim in an open lidd, and use [he periodical as a medium o' communication with the people. | In reference to the effect the action jof the Government has on the local ijournal3 of the colony, the Wu.iu b to.i

Independent, of the List., has the following well-timed remarks, which we take from a powerful leading article u;i the subject we have above >uscussed, ami which has our unouali ' lied approval. it says :- i •Newspaper proprietors iu a yiuimr coiouv are also general printers, and iu ev"p, mstau:.-.- liiai we, iuve seeu, Uley improve tianrj'..an ils in a prupor- 1 tion to the. kffitimate pro:':;.-, or rh.-ir hr-!i,‘-:i! Inis;. mas !t'thH:itfi-r are eo'-ia:!;.! )’• ... I queues, the newspaper mast ha publish ■ i with .a! r '.meed expenditure, ileaee the real uo; ••; u;' tii -; (v.»vernmiMii is vrvei i;\ <*ur autittii. ’ Tins J;iM proiiusal to report an 1 publish ihe Tar-1 liameutary dehates is another blow aim.-1 at thpress. Its oba’Ct is nut to save, money hat to star 1 . iile press, by denying ill! uurkto tin; prill’hip olii The independent predicts the failure ■f the scheme iu regard to its procnr-' tag tlie publication of full reports iif tue proceedings: So do tvep ■ md, not only so, hut its entire 1 failure in a iiuancial point as well as: in that. Certain it is that the majority of papers would nut repriut full; reports even if supplied to them gratis. ! and still more certain is it that they! will nut pay for what they do not re-; <pjin* and would not u-w.

Axothcb Rvsn to the nui.uni.— The' Xelson Examiner, ?dav s >vs that anu-; tiler ru.-h ha# taken place at the Bailer, 7 mile# tVo'ii Weslp ill. The prospect# are unusually good. Tiir. X ZS.X. CGaU'asv. — The Kvonin-; Post- informs us that tic* above eompanv"have given no'iee to tin- lion. the Post nni'! '■!•-( leneval of their intention to di--.■niitioue running a# mad boats on the Mari and West Coast# the steam si dp# Ta rainUtand W ellington, and the General Govern j

nc-nt invite iresli tenders for the perform | anee of the service-*. We presn-ne liu-l objeet of til:■ directors of the 'oea. e unpanv. j in taking t ids step, is i bat tic* two 'learner--; may make more money when not bound down to either time or place.'’ A proposal Si wind up tb.e conipriy was to be coosi ; dc-i'd on the cVcpuw -,1 I in- I'til’d lust, W . may here s' at c that although ti.e stcamcri del cut have \\h l.mgion until noon on the - till we arc not in receipt of a pa pc of that il-iy. Tn i-Wm-vrAKi.—Tli'* Warega ’i ni Time# of the lUlh .May #ay# : I'ic f-iito'.vj eg facts; are unit ny t.hc c nisiderai i m of t ie G fraiii-.'iil. When the Government buii.l nip ul the onlpi't# w -re aarerti/.-i fo. #al', the t -wo l-*.idi,.g ehie -■, Ata *.:ki Ivailai, and iVhira, who had oh-triieten and fought ag dost Generui Cam ■-. on, nc i ci.l-,-d upon a course of action. ii'.ev, am; ot. cr leading rebel chief# came in on the day of sale and purchased the whan*# ju#t vacated by the oiliccrs and non-eoinmi—, stoned oilleers of the Koval Irisa. Thither' to y have removed tlicir families, gomi-g am! chattels, and are now in actual pos--■■'sion, and declare they mean to keep it. ! hose, we repeat, are tin* men who oeeii-i pied the Weivroa in Genei-.d C.mun-ou's nine, ana wlio ever since then have L) *ei. wathing I -r an op-port unity to gam an ad vantugeoas position, jj.ivi. g now oolaioed it by purchase they mean to make the ,no#t of i . On the oilier hand, there are ioT thirteen European settlers upon the Waitotara. nml they are very Leneially of opinion lino if tin ecu o'* twenty men of the; Coii'-aal e-oree had been senl to occupy the important position v, hi h tin-y now hold. The non-survey of tiie block provents its more soee-.ly settlement by Coro-

peaiK, mid to I ins tact we ucstre to direct, the attention of Tie Provincial > tovcrnnv-nl. The immediate surrey of in - \\ aitotar.t tnav incur tin iintne.loMe a-id lacoaveaie .1 cxoetrn*, but; vnnit is Unit when coiupa-oj wit It the sell iemeut of a Faropeau popu-. alie.n upon the lilo -k who con! i hunt their own aoaiiist ail comers 'i Tile ium-co;n-j>i. lion of (he surveys is not only a constant s inve o' annoymice and tacoc'ean-ace t the sett lev, but also an absolute i.i-- i.i vue. colon v at i ii- J i uU tlie taint 1.1 I lie P.n ca district!- been surveyed, und I uc .tli.i;,-,:;. Sell let'.- ailo'.'C . to select litctr aliotajems as they sliou.U o.tve been, tiie conn try to that hii'-.-ei loti wou.d be now occnj.i.al by, a iiitrop.Mit | u> | .at bitt .a that- w on hi u,u tefiai.ee to all attetupis at tiau-.iau disturb-l nice. Again, had t.ic V» a.totara stiri.a> ; been oonioicteU, there would be completed,j lucre would be i uvoj-e.nis cnoug.i llierci t.) It old tlie it' own. Is the colony tiien, fotj aunt of the Coiapletiou of t ho siivvo s, tuj be involved i.i an an..luer '‘11.1.110 uofi-i cultv.” e trust tout during me presc... j session tins satijecl end have ll.e senoa ; i anti prac. unit uitemia -! the I'i-.vuiii.o Coun. U. if lacy c.oa .1 n.tcrieie «uu tin,-. ih-iJea siirrci 3. toei can nn.ji aosC e-l tiie! Wiotot.;;-.; a:;J others r-.nr; hi"-- Pay 1 i'£ Hut reuse..aa.y expect that lacy UO SO P Fire in Onriir.vc 1. —Fy way of the h o! Coast "c h- irn laat a tire m-a-e oat in Uaeiiu ,gn on toe night oi t..e l-ia last., V'iiieh cuiupl t.-iy i;. ; Kxelltntge iiolcl. tAnt. Kennedy, of t.uAired.lie, rt-d (~'.>r>iaju Km-,, er-.i .v, 01 nrAnuriii, vmi h linn- iv.-fjee. .it creu-s, spoken of as having i.-ii..u... goou service, ■ao t he occasion. !

The liii'i-auAi. Feme es.—We leai-a ti.ut ti’oops have commenced lo li-avu T.iianu.ii, iwo compani.-s ol tin; .jof (i giaieut havo already arrived at Auckland I'ur e.on.nk ;> CaNTI.UBIjKI' ;V temlie gale llui bc-li experienced at Hokitika, vvhit*:i has demolished twenty-; wo ha uses. The river is flooded, ami ins created fearful damage In (an'wte'ni.'i-i, Him old an ali -I>M i ! 'l Peacock and Co. has snspemu- ! pav- ») W-M ‘, 'i’Ll lilc largest era iitors are deciCcrn it A invalidin', London ; the B ank New Zealand ; J. Peacock and IC-rau- ' in, Vv -bo t Co., rSyd-ey. The failure is looke.a upon as a great calamity, us it etilads serious consequences on the a.mm-ai community ll is expected that t he tunnel will bo opened to-morrow (. ridav) aUernuon, as only eight yarns of ..xcavali'-ii remain unfinished, ami thed-ivingis bom/ '■apidly pcoceeded wild. icieara'.ns to u.a livening Post, May pi. A 1 or the U-K.vtuvl Ass-;mblv. .Mi a ii ursday, idm .May, com ea- a jer *eJniliation eainiig [ogcti.ar Hie i’.naianieti 1 of iNe'.v Zealand, tor :lae despatch of uu-i.acsj, ua Tuesday, tin- Uhi day of July next. die lititl m.K M.UI. Lliiit A 1 Ai KLIi'JUU.V K. On ilie litli inst. Mr T. M. iiurke, manager ol the Banko! Australasia at Saivih-s* dale, \ ictoria, was found silting in iui ii-ngay, shot through the right side oft.no Head, and quite el-, ad All ids pockets we. a turned inside out, and 5 U ounces •.!’ puli iiad been taken Ironi Ills valise. ine unloriuuate geuileii.aii had been on his rounds buying gold. liu: Lhames Goto Kit:.os.—Aucauh-ts 'nought noon to Auckian 1, from the Lliames district, six ounces of gold. Ido reports himself to bo one of a p irty of ion.- j that they got the broken g hd-hearing quartz from the surface, an-i declines t > iodn-ate the locality from iviiicii :t vves uolained, turtner than that it was somewhere in too Til lines. He lias no Bite..’, ion, at present at least, of nulling in f r ;,ie reward, Out Ins returned to ids niaicn

I CapkoJtU.i Later intelligence [received ;ir, Melbourne from tlie Cape of |(iood Hope mlnnaos i! ia I another war Lent ween j lie !1 . atos is -mail lent, four lions having been killed during the week en.iisi ; ;LU ii February.

; U .)!.!> i)l -C■.VJiKiKS ix Auoxi.a -d . I'llO Mew Zealand Herald .if me 7.a ■ bus the fod ov.ug article ; -i'iiere seems more prolubd-ty now to.in ever Ural a rent alluvial gold-iieid Mine ib ovmee of A ac Ilia.id is likely to be dev, lope 1. 1,1 two separaie instances ue lt,ve p.M.,1 the eXsience ol t nese gold-u ‘l-ts -In* 1 .iran'near funi'anga, 11 ie i'l • er at til • 1m la -n A e were shown on .Mon , v a .-ample of alluvial gold, ilal uni ,-c dv. ait ounce, peril.ip-, in weight, said t«> U i.ik.-n fro o. i In' ioinner, -in lle irn, 1 voni go iiuuiin.ij , lino the cxi-’c.scc of ho ui.-po.-lt I: t.l been 'for s, i: 11 • i Mie known to three tueiuners ot lit * iiiiinia regiment stationed it I'uarau ;:i. Maid Vie-. inan mi nn’s. wno U uv h , n work- ; i.( ijuieiiV lor 'nine line pa I, an 1 have leeuniiil ileil wait in digging parlance is t c tiled a ” p’.l-i.” I'm.- oluer Uiseovery is n lic i n lines. A genliem m called at our 0. yesien! iv wuli two line .samples of jigon.l, one suriaoe-ivaslie i, ami tiio oHmr a li’ir'i pieee ok gdd nearing iiuivU. fins eenl.ema.i, who h.n long k.i/au of t.ue existeac *of:i po. tola g.ilu-.i id n tn> •Xli lines district, tol l ns laai if titc Supers 1. woa;.l secure ,m pr Meetton fir six weeitii on the ground, he would look for ~is reward tb -re uit noiu asking tue ilo,' '(> ) uli’-ivd by tu 1 bi over, mien!. in our opinion tne only way to secure the u.mi imst at working of this ne i go.d-llrl t taint from ivual we have seen nn-.i heard, no d'>u it iris a second i.l Oor.iU") Would o- be pni’ciidsi.ig, nut the land, bat tho riant of dipping, from die u it ives. it i- imp

■tor ilie Supcriuu* nii*ut 10 grant proicctio.i I o any pcr-ou wit null coaiuu lo dniuit.* arrant— iu*iil< xvnli me native owners. if iiKi i niv.i.oi'iiUMii (,m;i oc made, and wo .beiieve me* m iv, i lie ground would bo tiiinivu open lor pro> n-et I u lt> I lie public at lav.c. i nere is no daunt Inal tin- n Rive ' mind in the di.-trict, reterred to lias b on very muon disturbed by unjirinciplud parties, \v;io Sure (..id lb • naluas that an ■ i.nlnx of diggers into llioir district v.wiild very ijmok.y drive iUoui away, dennvo mem ol their land?, and .• ro > ibiy of itieir women. d'nc coi.li.icnce ici, o\ mo n *,u-v in i In- r-I non ol' Mr Wilium-ca i, o.itce • i. as, vve believe, inatcrianv nioa nod l.'.<•<■) prejudices on iiic part oi tiiu n,n j \ V non V. o boa.' a, Ulan savine ia . v.ai ml dlali L ■!' 1.10 leWai'd, but is Wli.inn ,nn,v I lor u.,7 reward in ino oi’i'Hii.i, n > .... .s ! luino.'l, a,id lo li 3 appears as U ill- .ea n o 1 roany and imly sn.-netbing ere.a; *oie in [lile whole tiling, even tiiough it may not joo a iv«..ib.e lo ia!i in on iony uui. n.s iwin.es. liis Honor, xvc n..nei>!an t, w.,l | ;cnv c no stone Linlunji.il lo Inn a Inese in t liie clilci i’aui na- Uiuicid.tki n lo n.- . Oils ii.iino.,cV. wnum ]3 g cal m ; ic 1., i ... i infer ol t ,o reward of ~ ,U 0 umi to mu.u-e tnc pi i ;cl ai cniols to lay aside iiu .r Iji iin'r rivjiiaav,' inc opening up m [in n ui.'inc.is. dills is one way in nincii lin- n-.n n\.- n i'aui, m n,. «,d ii-M.-.1.;- inc iruvi ciai it-li cutivc, niiv lu oruUgtil into aciioc. uis cmidiMi to say 'no concern witn n.divc nfjii's." ilcre ;s an insi.u on in point., 0. me value of a native jniuei ac.i. g vm.i inc nistwin t.