The Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19 1878.

Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 704, 19 June 1878, Page 2

The Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19 1878.

We 'fam that the hill of costs in the W'.n/.KKft-JoN'ES trial, that aroused the lati'.fc r:/tuo of a number of the newspapers »f the Culoiiy, ha 3 been reduced by upwards of L 620. Will this restore the puckered faces of a few of our contemporaries to their normal conditions? It depends upon the depth of their feelings, aud the causes that called those feelings into existence. The Morning Herald, which, at a'l events so far as its objection to tho bill of costs is concerned, is only another name for a legal Grab-all, would like to have subjected it to a more | severe sweating process, and we venture f£> I think that one person at least who had to do with the howl of the Herald will now think that the game w;is scarcely worth the candle. Deep a3 his solicitude was for the well oeing of the public, if he could only recall the moment that, with the arrow of professional jealousy stuck in hi 3 heart, he penned the first word of the first article that appeared in thcHerald on the bill of costs, his present experience would say "Don't." and we are sure that he wouldn't. Then ihere is the Lyttelton Times, who in her old age is becoming religious. She turns up her eyes in horror as she beholds the depravity of human nature as exemplified in the bill of costs, and inserts an article by which, although it might have hailed

from Dunedin, she said " Them's my sentiments." The Canterbury Times is not such a goody-goody paper. Although printed in the Lyttelton Time 3 office by means of the same type, machinery, and men, under the same proprietary ; and al- ' though it is usually a reprint of that i paper, it actually published an article in favor of the bill of costs. Some people say that both aides were taken in order to piease all parties. T?e this as it may. the Canterbury Times, that was 30 wicked, is a very much younger member of the journalistic family, ami can scarcely yet be expected to practics the strict virtue of t:ie old woman irom which she sprain/. Even the Lyttelton Times strayed fn>:i! the paths of rectitude in her youthful days. She actually entered into an unholy confest with her younger sister rh. " Press," and ;m»»"htrr. to iiicr-as- tic charges fi>r printing for the Provide! > Governm- at. Wh> :i it was diseowred iha. she had such high notions, the GoVcrarnertt expected that litre nnpanions would be open to reason ; but she liar' charmed them iuto a compliance with lier wish, and the Government were compelled to pay the high standard fix- d, the three wicked creatures dividing the spoil. The fact, however, having at last leaked out, the work was sen*; by the Government to DuiKiliii, where it was done for something like one half the cost. No one knows better than the Lyttelton Times the trickery and chicanery that are rife in the World, for she has ever been behind the scenes. If she had another chance of screwing out of the Government for twelve months her own extortionate price for printing, doe*} anyone suppose that ; sue would take advantage of it in her old age? Oh, no. .She now puts forth her weekly child to advocate those things which she feels are so very \vro>ig, but the advocacy of which may be expedient. She is anxious not to offend anybody, so, whilst she would erase figures from the bid of costs with one hand, she would reinstate them, with the other. Wj are sure that, now that the above-mentioned facts have been made known, everybody will appreciate thesineerity of the Lyttelton Times as they appreciate the sincerity of that celebrated pleader who. under the veil of anonymity, launched out at. vigorously in his denunciations of the legal charges in the Wiutakbe-Joxes trial. We hope that the discontents will now be satisfied. The Herald will be so wo are sure ; for about the same reduction has beea made in the bill of costs in this case that were made in the bill of cost.-- in the WakaMaori trial, in which Mr. Macassey was engaged.