The Patea Mail. (Published Wednesdays and Saturdays) SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1878.

Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 328, 8 June 1878, Page 2

The Patea Mail. (Published Wednesdays and Saturdays) SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1878.

The Wanganui Chronicle , of the Gth instant, says :—“ We are informed by tele graph that in the case of Black v Ivess, which was heard yesterday, at the District Court, Patea, before Judge Kenny, and in which the plaintiff sued defendant for two hundred pounds.damages because of the falling off of subscribers to the Patea Mail, the plaintiff’s counsel, at the suggestion of Mr Hutchison, counsel for defendant, consented to accept a nonsuit ” The above paragraph contains a statement about subscribers to the Patea Mail, neither warranted by the telegram which was printed in the same issue of the Chronicle , nor by actual facts, as the proprietor of the Chronicle , who happened to be in Carlyle at the time the paragraph was written, should be able to vouch for —he having been informed that in spite of the daily coach bringing Wanganui papers, that, the subscribers to the Patea Mail were steadily on the increase. From commencement of present quarter (Ist April) we count twenty-five new subscribers, which, for a thinly-peopled district like Patea, speaks volumes. The previous quarter shows proportionately satisfactory, results. The intention of the writer appears to have been to do damage to the Mail. Advertisers and residents within the County who know the facts of the late action are not likely to be mislead. Even as shown on the trial, it was not for any falling off of subscribers after present proprietor was in possession, that former pro-

prietor was suedvbut that parties given in as subscribers in 187G, in some oases denied tiiat they were so, and in others declined to pay. We think the proprietor of the Chronicle will have the frankness to acknowledge that there was no foundation in fact for the damaging and untrue statement, in regard to the Mail, made during his absence.