TAKING A LIBERTY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1603, 8 January 1886, Page 4

TAKING A LIBERTY.

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAND AED.} ' Sih, -My attention was to-day drawn by a Borough Councillor to the fact that 'your .contemporary' had .takfen a mbst'^ uuwwrt-Bntable liberty with 1 a report !/ 63? " puolishiug the sauits before it had been > aidbeforpthtt Couucil. I rcfet to the matter placed iv the hands of a,.committee re new oflicps required By the du.Biiiil. The Times nditor was present I believe, at tlio Inst unieting of the Council, arid known perfectly, well ■■ that . the- reburtitr queatiou i was not read, aiid ' also that tliecouniiittee requested before 1 before laying anythii.g before the Council an extension .of time, m order toigo more fully into the matter. In the face of this the minutes of the said committee were iv some way procured by the Times reporter and yublisbed by .him m life paper's issue of last night with the following misleading preface "Tho minutes of meetiug of committee appointed to consider offices foriuse of Council were read as follows," —Now sir I thiak that the editor of the Times has taken q:nte too mucti upon hiurtelf by publishing committee pro*-' ccediugs before they, have been before the.Couucil and I hope that he will receive a most desorriug reprimand! lit the hands o£ the CounoU for the liberty he has taken. — I am, &c, . , 1 More Indiscretion.' t.