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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1163, 4 November 1871, Page 2

We have had to remark upon the gioss personalities indulged in by some of our colonial contemporaries, but have seldom a more glaring instance than in the Wellington Independent of the 20th October, which contains a leading article criticizing one which recently appeared in the EveningPost. The question at issue (which relates to the conduct of Sir D. Monro) is first touched upon, after which, lhe Independent, in defiance of all journalistic etiquette, attempts to identify the writei of the Post's article. Having fixed upon its victim the Independent proceeds—" Rejected by his constituents for his labid opposition to the Government, and frustrated in a very barefaced attempt to get a salaried office in connection with the University, he now prowls about the purlieus of the House a disappointed man, dragging the high office of Yice-Chancellor of the Univer sity of New Zealand into the dirty waler of detraction and intrigue, while, at the same time, he consents to accept a daily honorarium out of its very limited endowment for sitting once a week in its Council," Again, " What hope can there be of a University of which this hoary detractor is the VieeChancellor?" We have no hesitation in characterising such language as disgraceful; and when it is remembered that the Independent is merely fighting at random- -that the gentleman attacked very possibly had nothing to do with the Post'b article—it is amazing. In the very same issue, too, the Independent describes the comparatively mild communications of the Hawke's Bay Herald's parliamentaiy correspondent " Peregrinus'' as containing " personal references of a perfectly unwarrantable character,'' and " undertakes to inform him of the nature and extent of the privileges of Parliament and of thp Press." !! —Before the editor of the Independent "undertakes" any such task, we think, he should devote a little study to to the subject for his own personal benefit.