SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 954, 9 May 1879, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

' FROM "!'i: 11WN .oRKK.SI'ON'DKNT. ] AUCKLAND. May 8. The Star to-night publishes the following :—lt was not our intention to refer to the .subject of the cable piracy again. Our reason for deviating from that resolution is the industrious circulation of a number of utterly unfounded and calumnious statements, which arc emphatically contradicted by the following cable message, and received from Mr. Haynes, editor of the Sydney Evening News and Town and Country Journal. " Sydney, May 7th. New Zealand papere received relative to cable sen-ice 'are causing intense merriment. The Vogel item was not printed in tlie Evening News owing to its being false, but was issued by me as an extra. One hundred slips were printed, and iss-.red at the time. Other cable news reached our ofKce. Glad succeeded in the statement about forgery being transparent. Slip 3 are posted. Other traps are preparing alone under my management. Haynes, Sydney." The above telegram proves our statement that the item was published either in an Australian journal, or in an extra. With tho indulgence of our readers, we shall now briefly recapitulate the puints brought out by the controversy, and shall then drop the subject in these columns for other and more effectual modes of punishing the slanderers. e have proved that, in conjunction with Nsw Zealand and Australian papers, we established a costly special cable service. 2. That finding the fruits ~f this enterprise used in such a way as to deprive us of the benefit, we reproved the spoiler. '•}. The cablegrams were then attacked (bogus), and we were viliiied as the manufacturers of them. 4. When the excellence of the messages made their reparation, r:n-an<;ements were carried •nit by a nunibpr of napei'j for filching them in New Zealand and Australia without an acknowledgment, and using them as London messages from " own correspondent." 5. That when charged with this they strenuously denied it. li. That the Yogcl hoax caused them to eat their own denials, and the cablegrams h.ive since been acknowledged as simply from our Australian partners in the services. ']■ That ro excuse the former practice, it was atso:t.;d l.y tho Herald that it paid more for cablegrams than wu did, but when challenged to the proof by a very simple list they made no response. So far judgment may be left to the public. For private wrongs the law provides a remedv.