We could wish that the management of the United Press Association would direct its agents to exercise a little wholesome discretion iu the matter of forwarding telegrams. Scarcely an issue passes but we are favored with the results of a trivial police case in some out-of-the-way locality, or treated to full details of a slight bodily injury which some settler has received whose name is unknown to fame. Y r ester* day, which, by-the-way, was not one of our publishing days, we received a lengthy description of a robbery which had taken place in Timaru, tire telegram concluding with the wonderful announcement that the “ police were investigating.” Perhaps it may be deemed news to the people of Timaru when they are made acquainted with the startling fact that the police are awake and investigating, but beyond its local significance the information is of no .importance whatever, and we have a decided objection to pay wire charges for news which cannot by any possibility be of any public interest outside the locality from which it is despatched.
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Marlborough Daily Times, Volume III, Issue 264, 29 July 1881, Page 2
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