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Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 94, 4 September 1878, Page 2

;It Ch^kiks Dickeks had visited New 1 Zealand instead of < 'Anierica,- one might be f led to Suspect fchaj» his description pi the Eatens^ill paper war hadr.been drawn from Wanganui, and it would not be hard to recognise the , counterpart of the " EatensGazette;*' \n jthe^Ohronlcle." There "is a bi^p,f i .^r^ra^ther^, which have done more to drag the " profession of journnlisrb .through the mire, than all other journals m I the Colpny-^save'.ttnd except, their counter-: "ports ths^LyeJ Argus*? aw* '"Bulle* N«ws."| yrheneTer; they can spare a moment from the congenial employment of flinging mud on ;each ; other, they look around for some one. npon , whom' to.. spit th'eir^vehom and spSe|>n, and the ' following is : the latest iattempt of that " preciods pr^duetioh— fchft " Chronicle.'* :- 7 "^6ri^A^r3M ; ; m !iMA;KA-WATir.-T-ißttnioUr haili 1 : ' it i that' i-a number J of the t^busiuess . people ■ m; Palmßrston have .become so alarmed : -. at; the prospect o^ithe/Tpubl&hingrdillce; of the .\fiina'watu jTimes being renvejjed to Feildiag that they, hav^e; entered, into negotiations for the pu^ro^ase; oi'\^,p^pei);yitb / 'tiiie.inten-,'. tion of; gtnngt Jie erstv^hile^ fire-eater of tlie Tabletj carte blanche to cut but all bpposi-. tion." 1 Just^so;; that is " Jburhalisin in ' Manawatu," and a very -pleasing, contrast it ia to journalism iii Wanganui, which has'become sjnomjrmons with bounce,' bathos, and Billingsgate 1 ; 1 a'bye word thrqugliout 5 the Colony, and a lasting example of to what depths of degradation ana cowardice that ihighty leverir^hevpTessccan 'ba^fostituted* The statement, of the intended .remov^ftp^Fflilding.^ contains ..the same; amount of veracity as ithat-referrmg to iho' alarm j for. certainly' if there, be.aniy alarm' it is upon the side of, the/ Wanganui scribe,which! possibly" may account X°.r liis "runted' plumage. /.We. ...wonder', if the "Water ;Drinkerjpf Chrpmbie", were ; neceasita'ted to-remote ' his preciPus production to ,llong Kong,| how 'many: of the business people of his town would ask to staythe prbe'eedingj? : Echo 1 anawers s None I Ahd< that is jjysKthe difference between " Journalism int Manawatu- and Journalism iii Wanganui."