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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5158, 3 October 1877, Page 2

Ax error occurred in our notice yesterday of the Evening Post's enterprise in the procural of special telegrams. The date given as 29fch should have been the 27th, The simple facts of the case are:—The Post on the 29th ult., in the forenoon, published telegrams bearing date “London, the 27th, night”; or, in other words, purporting to be only ■ thirty-six hours old. Now, as a matter of fact, those telegrams must, in consequence of the break in the cable, have taken more than forty-eight hours to come from Singapore to Batavia by steamer; so that they must have got from London to Singapore and from Batavia to Wellington, as we said yesterday, in considerably less than no time. It would not be fair to ask the Pdst for an explanation. When a paper gets hold of a mode of annihilating time and space, in the interests of its readers, it can scarcely be expected to tell other papers how the thing is done. Consequently all that is permissible is to admire the enterprise of the Evening Post.