Notes and Events.
The Wanganui Herald is troubled at the conduct of the Wellington papers It says :— We hope, therefore, that before the next general election comes along that the Liberal party in Wellington will have started and established a suitable journalistic organ to look after the interests of the party, and not leave them to be misrepresented and maligned by the Tory press of that city, which sticks at nothing in its eager desire to destroy the union of labour and the newly acquired strength of the masses.
The same paper has not an exalted opinion of the Press Association. It declares that to start a paper in "Wellington « it would cost a large sura to do so, as the entrance fee to the Press Association has been raised to a prohibitive height, with the intention of preventing any more daily papers being started in the Empire #ty The only way to start and keep afloat a good Liberal daily; in Wellington, would be to do so without subscribing to the Press Association, and doing without its telegrams, which arg|not worth a quarter of their cow and are frequently so jumbleffr p and unreliable as Jo be utterly worthless.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 19 January 1892, Page 3
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200Notes and Events. Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 19 January 1892, Page 3
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