SNARLING.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 197, 7 December 1876, Page 2

SNARLING.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE EVENING MAIL. Snt, —The journals in Oamaru are singularly free from that very stupid fault of snarling at one another, and the editors from behaving after the manner of the rivals so ably described by Mr. Pickwick when recording his visit to Eatansvill. In Diinedin, however, things appear to be different. Luckily even there it is onesided, for while the Guardian, systematically pitches into the Times, the latter preserves a dignified silence, and comforts itself much after the manner of a mastiff when annoyed by a small cur. It always shows a want of ability in an editor when his editorial column is continually full of abuse of a contemporary. It is easy to write, and requires no original genius. Of course at times it may be necessary, when one journal is upholding some flagrant wrong, or has evidently been misinformed, but when carried on persistently, the thinking portion of the reading public get disgusted, and the interests of the paper suffer accord ingly. That this fault is committed in many other places besides Dunedin cannot be that city is only chosen as an cause it is the nearest our doors. ■ &C, STKANGfcitTjH