The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1886. JOURNALISTIC AMENITIES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1714, 21 May 1886, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1886. JOURNALISTIC AMENITIES.

Readers of the Wellington newspapers ' can scarcely Have failed, io .notice, more particularly of late, the implacable hatred ■ and persistent ariinlus displayed \ by' the , Evening Post towards its morning contemporary, never -losing an opportunity , bf seeking to distort : its- utterances" and ■ 'make capital out "of them for 'itself. .!' Some little time ago the. New Zealand Times pointed out the danger to be, apprehended .from, the; rapid spread of' typhoid? whicH V^s jfc , matter.' of public ; .notoriety.: 'The^ol<ibamedi|tely^ ialhev "most -.paltry iinannerji'sbiignt'to' make out * that the Times- liad purposely tried to, tret up a sqare, and at pnee, began .to , create sini^fyathy;' with- Hhe-'^bfeness '] people — disinterested, of course.- ; We are I no great ...admirJßjQS.. of the New Zealand i Times, but we maintain that that journal : would have grievously failed inits djity, had it-^neglecjed' to-point oat the graye '■ Bourca£ of danger.^-admitted, too, jn.tiie ■• columns of; the iPoa/j.anfi certified to. by the me^icai facility. THe Poit in effect; ; said : " : 0E coursia we know' that typhoid i ia universally' 'prevalent m the city ; but : ' what business had the Times to say aoy- j thing abpHt^;!^ and, scare people from :| coming here to die, (as indee^ some - residents .'from Palmerston have done). .■'Let^be^ I cbltofe.--.;-'W6'-will-look af^er our- . Besides it was a fine chance for 'the Post to display its consuming regard for tbj& interests of the shopkeepers, and - toisay to them, "Look how we stuck f up for you, ;when". the -Tiraea tried to create a scare and ruin trade,'' Now aU this is. very unbecoming m a^rnal of the : 'standing of the Yost, which' ought to be above such paltry tactics.; Msor«i recently ■; still the Times ref erred. ,m general terms to the Hori. John Bryce's political career;' And this is the rejoinder made by, the Post :— " The New Zealand Times' , may -by persistent misrepresentation, of . 'tlie purpose and import ot the movement, deb*r from taking- part m it many who ; oit the ioriginal lines would gladly have done so. Indeed,, we fear that this effect has already to some extent been pro-' duced, but we trust that the public gene- - "rally' will treat our bontemporarv's action, m this matter witlv the contempt it so thprongljly deserves," Readers m this digtrtct are not altogether unfamiliar with a similar style of writing. But something higher and more dignified is expected' from a metropolitan journal of 'the standing of the Wellington Evening Post. The Eveping J*TV**i Mr Wakepibld's • paver, he^or descends to this low grade of journalism and it is new,, for, the Post to do.Bo. , A paper that is for "ever.: trying to point out un wot thy motives iv a. contemporary^ and to misropresent and..; vilify it, leaves a record ihat will npt. secure, ptT retain .the synipathy^ pflih©'" publics/who will m the long run begin t tq ■<, i discover thut all this fault-finding has but one object m view, viz., self-interflsjt, to the disparagement of its contemporary;. ; : Were' the Post a strugghnsr and :npt > verw? popular country newspaper, beset with financial difficulties, and surrounded '. with opposition, we might understand it descending to the rofe pf petty-fault-finder and_v;li(ier; ; but-irom a paper with its' ostensible p'bsition and creditable, antecedent^, spmething better 4o looked for. Our experience has been' thai the . more persistently and the more bitterly . a paper is assailed m the direction indicata'a l the more pronounced is its sue jjijjg^nd the more substantial its proMwepresentation, perleoution.

feat theii^ object, as the Post, and al other journals adopting the saino disre ■ pntable tactics, will m t,ha long run have to adinU. differ by all means; but'fßir'Tneai scorn to be for ever seeking to' compute unworthy motives to their contemporaries amd heap tin. them opprobrium, merely for the sake of some paltry trade jealousy. Surely the^ Press. has a' : Mgher and nobler sphere thari this^.toiieeo.pyj . ' ''. '