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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 9, 23 April 1879, Page 2

(Fbom a Correspondent ) Auckland, Wednesday. Tbe Star has just issued the following extra :— " The pirates trapped red handed ' The bogus telegram ! ! Who prompted G. M Reid ? ' Thou shalt not steal' ! .' 1 Finding it impossible to shame tbe Herald from stealing our costly cable messages we forwarded by tbe Zealandia to Sydney to our Australian partners the following bogus dispatch, concocted in the Star office :— « lt is-understood that Sir Julius Yogel shortly retires from tho Agent-Generalship to join a commercial firm, and that G. M. Reid, recently arrived from the colony as immigration Agent for Ireland, will administer the affairs of the London office until a permanent appointment is made by the New Zealand Government.' The telegram was published in Australia with other special messages, as a trap, aud was of course pirated by the agents of the Herald, It appears this morning in our contemporary, under a large heading, as from ' our own correspondent,' and in a leading article thereon the Herald says: — ' But tbis time the statement comes to us in si'ch away that we must give it credit.' It is needless to say that the statement is without any more substantial foundation than the ingenuity of its author, and we can picture the astonishment of the AgentGeneral and Mr G. M. Reid when they hear of it. Now wbat of tbe repeated denials by the Herald. A full exposure will be published in to-night's Star."