Correspondence.

New Zealander, Volume XVIII, Issue 1725, 20 September 1862, Page 4

Correspondence.

To the Editor of the Nbw-ZeaLAKDEB

Silt, —Could you oblige me, by informing me what an Editor of a newspaper considers a public grievance. My reason ior asking you is, that the Editor of the Cross refuses putting a letter of mine in his paper on account, it appears by him to be a private grievance and not a public grievance; now I would like to know, if a person keeps several gaps in his fence to trepan his neighbours' cattle and take them to pound, if that is not a public grievance I would like to know what is? 1 can assure the Editor of the. Cross, I am not the only one that has had to complain about the same party, regarding bis fence, for once I was eye witness in seeing the same J. P. brought to the bar of Mr. Beckham's Court regarding bis fence. It is not long since Mr. John Scboles apprehended one of his sons illegally draging a calf of his by the neck to the pound, and took it from him. It is a very bard case for licenseholders after paying their licence money to be debarred from running bis cow on the Hundred through a few spiteful neighbours. So it is not a private grievance when so many others complain of the same thins:. I should like to know what sort of a grievance the Editor of the Cross called it when he was publishing through bis journal about the scarcity of meat, and as t;ood as told every new-comer almost starvation would stare us in the face. We have too good a harbour close under our lee to starve tor the want of meat; if we cannot get it alive we can get plenty of corn-beef. If the Editor of the Soutlierji Cross had been in New Zealand 38 years back, as I was, he might have talked about starvation. It is not much encouragement for any new-comer to stop amongst us, when the editor of a public journal tells them they will soon have to pay a shilling a pound for their meat. Now, Mr. Editor, the reason I have troubled you with these few lines is to show, that Mr. B. E. Turner's letter is not, as stated by the Cross, a private grievance. I have, kc, Bexj. E. Tdkmeb, " Retreat" Cottage. September 17th, ISG2,

"SOUTHERN CROSS" ACCURACY. To the Editor of the New-Zealaxder. Silt,-In the first and second columns of the 3rd page of yesterday's Cross appear three different allusions to the ship Hanover, in each of which the total number of passengers is differently stated. In one place as 436, in another as 33G, and in the third as 340. I feel about as much enlightened as to the real facts of the case as I did the day before as to the value of the Corotnandel gold where the editor, who understood, as it appears, very little about what he was writing, congratulates his readers that the Coromandel gold " is not quite so inferior as it had been reported to be " Yesterday another report of an assay received from Mr. Nathan puts the matter clearly enough, and shows how little reliance can be placed in the statements of the Cross and in the ability of its conductors to place such statements as they receive in an intelligible manner before the public. Coromandel with them is a " daily" necessity, but bolstering it up with false statements will in the end neither serve the purpose of the Cross nor of the country.

In the same paper the Tasmanian Maid was advertised to sail this morning for Coromandel, while in another part of the same issue she is said to be going up the river with the Nonconformists. A DICGER. Auckland, Sept. 19, 1832.