The Evening Mail. TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1877.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 392, 31 July 1877, Page 2

The Evening Mail. TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1877.

That pattern of truthfulness, the Otago Daily Times, we presume, has obtained an advertisement, or some pecuniary benefit, from the Dunedin millers, for we are certain that nothing less would have induced the editor to give insertion to the following paragraph :—" The Oamaru district flour it is well known brings a better price than the flour produced in any other part of New Zealand. Soil and climate are favourable to the production of wheat, and the Oamaru wheat makes more bread to the ton than any other. The Oamaru mills, however, are

likely, to lose their good name, as it is said that they are now mixing the cheaper wheat of Canterbury with the better quality, the railway affording facilities which they did not have before of obtaining supplies." It will be remembered that some few months ago the millers of the chief city of the Colony, thinking of our mills and millers, as they now profess to think of our Breakwater, that they were "of no importance, and could not possibly affect them," endeavoured to increase their prices, place unfair restrictions on purchasers, and "break things" generally. We had the pleasure of exposing their humbug, and the result was that rather more business was transferred to the Oamaru mills than was pleasant for these would-be monopolists. We would like to know where the Times received its information. Certainly not from one of our local millers, and who else could supply that paper with information upon which to base so positive an assertion ? We have always felt considerable pleasure in bearing testimony to the lying proclivities of what we suppose is entitled to be called our contemporary, and we repeat the statement that, for wriggling, dishonest, lying journalistic practices, the Times "beats Bannagher." It has a circulation of a few copies in Oamaru, whioh is being jeopardised by its present misconduct.