NOTES ON CURRENT EVENTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 15, 16 December 1884, Page 2

NOTES ON CURRENT EVENTS.

■■'■". ' - — —: —*• —r ■ •. . \ t; Some newspapers;are 'very •.• ready to claim for themselves credit when.certain hecefssary 1 improvements ' suggested by .1 other newspapers are Carried into effect. The familiar phrase " m consequence of representations made m these columns/ is immediately,; seized [.hold p§,r The Wellington moruing paper takes! the Post to task for a . matter, of this kind, but apologises to its -readers for doing so, cp the ground that its contemporary is perpetually carping at the morning journal," and assumes an immunity from' error which it does not possess." Our experience is that the best way ub ; not to notice " carping >attacks," and if possible not to see or read; them. -The public do ;iot admire such personal controversies, and although incessant "carping " may be more orlesß uupleaisant tp tHe'journal made the victim of persecution, still it is not justifiable^in our opinion, replying to each one. For the most, part these carping attacks are made:, with the s"<)le object of getting up' a. per-, sohal bontroversy, which' is never relished by readers. Nor, indeed, has a journal auy right to. devote its space to' such matters as' fighting its .own quarrels. The public can discriminate between the merits of journals, aud persistent abuse and misrepresentation are estimated at their' proper value. ; The, journal' which 'will succeed * :ls: -; the one which considers the interests, jd£ its readers, and abstains from devoting its columns to the dissemination of personal abuse and scurrilous recrimination] • i