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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 280, 12 June 1875, Page 2

That’s what He is. —If an editor omits anything, he is lazy. If he speaks of things as they are, people get angry. If he glosses over or smoothes down tho rough points, he is bribed. If he calls things by their proper names, he is unfit for the position of an editor. If he does not furnish his readers with jokes, he is a mullet. If he does, he is a rattlehead, lacking stability. If he condemns the wrong, he is a good fellow, but lacks discretion. If he lets wrongs and injuries go unmentioned, he is a coward. If he exposes a public man, he does it to gratify spite—is the tool of a clique, or belongs to the “ outs.” If he indulges in personalities, he is a blackguard. If he does not, his paper is dull and insipid. The attention of Masters, Owners, and Agents of Vessels trading on the coast of New Zealand is directed to the following clause from “The New Zealand Post Office Act, 1858.”—Particular attention is directed to that part of the clause printed in italics. The Master of any vessel who neglects to give the Post Office timely notice of any alteration as to the period of his vessel’s departure, is liable to a penalty not exceeding £100: —“ Clause XXV. —The Master of every vessel about to proceed from any port to any other port shall give at least tweuty-four hours' notice at the Post Office at such port of his departure ; apd if the vessel does not sail at the time appointed, shall also give timely notice of any alteration as to the period of her departure ; so as to enable the postmaster or other post officer to be prepared to despatch mails on board such vessel; and if any such’ master shall refuse, fail, or neglect to give such notice, he shall for every such offence forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding £lOO. The editor of the Hawke's Bay Herald gets well laughed at by the Wellington Post for his prudery in calling the Can Can, as danced by the Duvalli sisters, “ scandalously indecent.” The Post says : —“ Probably, the moral editor had heard of the Can Can as a highly immoral dance, and, with this full conviction, martyred himself by going to witness what he had already made up his mind was scandalously indecent.” — Napier Telegraph.