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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5051, 1 June 1877, Page 4

We have drawn a bow at a newspaper correspondent, and have wounded a second. It will be remembered that on the '29th o£ May we took occasion to compliment the Wellington correspondent of the Otarjo Daily Times for having, after a given' period, arisen, Plueuixlike, from the embers of former falsehoods, and soared into spheres of almost unapproachable untruth. In other words, we said that the correspondent in question had told things which might be stigmatized by a word rhyming with " flies." But we never said anything about the Wellington correspondent of the Lyttelton Times ; and yet in its issue of Hay 30th that paper has the following from its own correspondent :—" Wellington, May 29. —The New Zealand Times this morning contained a sub-leader violently attacking your correspondent regarding the statement made about disseusi.m iu the Cabinet." This is very unfair. The Lytlclton Times correspondent is anxious to get all the credit given to the correspondent of the Otayo Daily Times. " Habet." We are quite prepared to assert that the one correspondent is quite equalin mendacity to the other. The telegram quoted by us is a proof ; but if further were wanted it might be found in the fact that the correspondents are only different on paper, and are most probably one and the same person.

OWING to the new arrangements which the Press Agency, by the pel-mission of the Government, have been enabled to make, we are. in a position to furnish our readers this morning with news from Australia up to the previous midnight, and with European news telegraphed from Singapore yesterday,afternoon. The latter seems to be of import. It may be that the Russian Ambassadors to Germany, England, and Austria, have left for St. Petersburg for instructions, but read with the news of the German squadron proceeding to the east of the Mediterranean, it would seem as if a general war impended in which France would side with Russia.