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Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 644, 27 May 1878, Page 2

The Kew Zealand Times—'" tlio Colonial journal"—the coddled of the late administration—feels tli.it its glory is departing, and that, compared to the New Zealander, it is as a farthing rushlight, to | the noonday sun. It never teas a favorite ' with the public of Wellington, much less was it appreciated by the people of the ' Colony; but it was nurtured in the Yooel Government, and partook copiously of the lacteal draught which its maternal parent hud to bestow. The supply has now dried up, and the poor ' pining thing is apprehensive that it will soon have to follow suit. It never was strong, for it was born of sickly parentage, and it now, on tins account, feels the more keenly the calamity that has befallen ic in being cast upon the charity of the public. When it glances around, awl beholds the prosperity in which it might have shared, it lifts up its hands in an agony of soul, and givc3 vent to a jeremiad heart-breaking—lt would have been better had it never been born, than that . it should have become an outcast, living ; upon tli<? crumbs that drop from the table of its better.-;. Who can wonder that its • position should engender in if feelings or tj I jL-alousy ? Othera have and to ipare ; and all it asks is a coriiinuanee of that support that has craLLd ji. i:i flu.- ■ past, to drag out an ■ \\ hure is . Atkinson and his frknda; where now their inllueuc-j and sv.x-.-t :'.:::.g:~ !- ( one : and tin friauishin (hey hav.j LTr bu'iiiid i . them—cvuy n.iunant i!::-. : : :.-11-v ■< that! they once existed—will i±oz be long 1:1 , following them into obscurity. Sir <"■ ;.:oi: >••;■: j t, Grey and his followers naturally have an t j aversion to maintaining their opponents' j j bantlings, however aii'.eting may bo their . j appeals for stipp.-rt. They 00 me of bad ■ A 1 stuck, and, in c.v.L-r.d;;-" ■■■• (hew sui,.-f::u-f\ tial svniT>arl-.v. ti.e-v v. ouhl only be muring i I'liMuier and his ! appear, sometime; are the recipient.rary friends would ol.aie the same fate as that which threatens the New Zealand Times had they not something more to depend upon. There is not a particle of truth in the assertion that is now going the rounds of the opposition journals to the effect thai those papers that are friendly to the Government are indirectly subsidised by advertisements. Let anybody glance at our columns and those of the opposition papers of the same calibre, and they will be convinced that the boot is on the other leg. The fact is thai there has been so much bribery and corruption in the past —the opposition journals can vouch for that —that it is supposed thai no government can stand without it. Bui wc say that there is a power stronger than the voice of die few journals opposed tc the present Government, and thai: powei is the void of the public. jS'o government and no newspaper oppjiosing this