ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. To the Editor of the New Zealander.

New Zealander, Volume 8, Issue 672, 22 September 1852, Page 2

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. To the Editor of the New Ze alander.

Sir, — I addressed a letter to the Southern Cross on a subject winch I believed to be legitimately a public one — although it might appear as only affecting myself and a few others as individuals. Lest there fchould be nny misunderstanding of motives, I thought it best to send my statement, attested by my name, to the Cross rather than to the New Zcatander, where this year's contract i» held for the Government Printing. My letter has been refused insertion, because, as appears from the Editor's "Notice to Correspondents," I happen to earn my bread at the New Zcalander office. When I came to this country, desirpus of obtaining employment at my own trade, I can assure him that a situation jn his office would have been as acceptable as in any other. What I complain of is, that while there are three printing-offices in Auckland, the proprietors of which have signified th«ir willingness to tender for the Government Printing, there is no fear of a higher piiue being charged in Auckland for the Government w.ork than in any of the other colonies, and consequently no reason why the Government should send to England for their printed forms ; and by so doing deprive journeymen printers of the regular employment that might be afforded them here. I have been making inquiry for a precedent, but have not \>ecn able to discover that the like was ever done in the other colonies, where there was some excuse for it, much of the printing required being for the use of the convict establishments which were kept up there at English cost. I wonder ihat the Southern Cross should fear corruption of the local press by the Government Printing being done in the colony. He knows well that, at Wellington, the Independent, which writes in opposition to the present Government, holds the contract this year for half, as it did last year for the whole, of the Government Printing;and here it is well known to everybody that there are some in Government pny who arc not, consequently, restrained from writing strictures on • the policy of th<j Government. I need hardly say that the writer of the Notice to Correspondents in the Southern Cross — yea, one of its Editors — is himself in the employ of the Government at a salary of £]00 per annum. If newspapers find support in the community cither by pursuing a moderate course, or the contrary, 1 do not sec why either of their courses should be altered by performing work for which they have an equal chance of offering their services, if they have convenience — so long as the lowest tender is accepted— and lam surprised that the Cross should advocate a step — merely out of bitterness to an opposition journal — to injure the' working printei-s of the place, who have emigrated here to follow their calling, and who are, for the most part, ill-adapted for other pursuits. It is hardly fair to have services performed at home, which are required for, and can be performed in, the colony equally well, and as cheap in proportion as in England, while these services have to be paid for out of lhe pockets of the colonist? themselves, and while men are obliged to leave the colony for want of employ. There are three journeymen printers here now subsisting on precarious employment, and one on board a ship m the harbour engaged to work his passage to some other, colony. By- inserting this you will oblige, F. W. Coore.

[We take the following lively description of an intelligent lady's first impression on arriyingin Auckland, from Charles Dickens's Household Words for March last. There is, little doubt that subsequent and fuller in* formation would have induced the writer to correct a few of the minor statements ; but the general effect of the whole on the mind of the English reader must be favourable to this district, and we are glad to see in a publication of such world-wide circulation as the Household Words anything conceived in ;\ just and kindly spirit towards our settlement.— Ed.N.Z.]