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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 49, 17 June 1876, Page 2

\Yi: sincerely trust our readers will peruse carefully every word of the Governor's .Speech as telegraphed from Wellington yesterday. We may tell them, in confidence, and we should not like it to go any further, that this gubernatorial luxury has cost lis two pounds three sliillings sterling. The Press Agency, with a laudible desire to be liberal at other people's expense, sent this message with every word lilled in, and it arrived here too late for insertion in last night's issue. We think that if the Financial and Public Works . Statements are sent free, this annual parrot-like effusion of Her Majesty's representative should also come sat the same rates. The telegraphic charge to a morning journal fortius speech be 10s. Gd., wlxile we have to pay four times that amount. It has been stated that during the Session the evening papers were to be allowed 500 words at evening fates ; but it would appear, from the sum we have paid for tliis message'-that the new arrangement lias not yet c§me' into operation.