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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 173, 9 November 1876, Page 2

I TnE old savin j, "Two of a trade can I never agre?," sjcius to be fully exempliI fied in the newspaper world. In the capital of t .c Colony a kind of triangular duel has long been waged bttwen th« three papers, in which each one has been trying to surpass the others in the bitterness oi its sarcasm, and the keenness of its cuts. In the chief town of Southland the question of Provincialism v. Abolition has been fought out between the two local journals with an acerbity scarcely needful. The Dunedin dailies have just finished a kind of pitched-battle, in which one tried to prove the other far from respectable, and now, afraid that the matter was likely to drop, the Dvnstaa Times gives the stick a turn round, and strives once more to set the ball rolling. In its last issue, that papsr publishes a furious onslaught upon the Guardian, aud in its to defend the Times, gives its rival some v?ry bitter pills to swallow. It is just p-J3sible the Dunstan Times finds itself somewhat like the pugnacious Irishman, who saw a glorious fight going on. and yet was debarred from '•' chipping in." We imagine its namesake is quite able to defend itself, and it would exhibit a fairer spirit were the man of Dunstan to hunt up an antagonist for himself, than seek to pour a double-shotted broadside into a sinking ship.