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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 4987, 17 March 1877, Page 2

No more wanton and wilful-efforts at ! accomplishing' public mischief are made ;than those attempted by certain New Zealand correspondents of journals published ont of the colony. These gentle • ! men, who in the colony . are unable to publish in any paper of note the untruths their anonimity enables them to ;circulate elsewhere, take advantage of their connection with- some influential | journal' ih Australia to work alkthe ill they can to New Zealand. An Australian paper is not to. be, altogether blamed for ;being deceived in its appointment of a [correspondent, Sonie injudicious recommendation by a person supposed to know :the colony probably leads to the engagement as correspondent of some, person who here is either unheard by anyone, or .merely disseminates his falsehoods through the medium-of some insignificant journal, the reputation of which sufficiently contradicts every statement it may Contain. But it is to be regretted that respectable and powerful newspapers elsewhere are often unwittingly made the' means of giving an air of authority* to the fabrications of worthless ; correspondents, and of,', so injuring New ■ Zealand in the eyes of their, readers. The Brisbane Courier and its now notorious New Zealand correspondent are instances such as those to which general reference .has been made, and so are also the, Melbourne Argus and its New Zealand correspondent, who, it may be noticed, dates his letters from Wellington. The last-named gentleman, in a recent letter, is good enough to say that the colony is short of money, and that public works are not being pushed on. The raising of the million and a half from the Bank of New Zealand and the Bank of New South Wales is mentioned, but it*is coolly stated that this will merely provide funds for public works .until the end of the year, and the fact, which is well known in New Zealand, is quite ignored, 1 namely, that our. public works are to be pushed on, and that, the funds fqr the purpose are . amply sufficient for two years to come. A.nd then the readers of the Melbourne Argus are told that the New Zealand Government “ is singularly reticent on the subject of money matters just now.” After reading such correspondence as this we are forced to wonder how any man could so wilfully ignore facts. The Government has never been reticent bn money matters, and all particulars in connection ‘ with , the million anda half Recently borrowed have been made public. There is not a man in the colony that is hot in full possession of the circumstances, and that is not aware that the Government is, fully able to carry on our public works, and has ample, funds at its disposal for this purpose for fully two years to come.