ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Southland Times, Issue 999, 7 August 1868, Page 2

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

WE DO NOT IDENTIFY. OURSELVES IN ANY WAV WITH THE OPINIONS EXPBE3SED BT OUB CORBESPONDENT3.

(to thb editob op thb southland times) I Sib. — Am I right in thinking that editors of public journals have no control over what appears in their advertising columns. I have always been of opinion that r they were equally responsible for whatever appeared in the paper under their supervision no matter how headed, and that consequently they had the right of refusing publicity to scurrilous productions although offered payment for their insertion. An advertisement which appears in your contemporary 's pages this morning has raised a doubt in my mind on this subject. I allude to an announcement headed " glorious success of the Penny Headings," in which the writer, under the guize of a publican's advertisement, takes occasion to make some very, to use the. mildest term, disgraceful remarks affecting several gentlemen who have most effectually supported these .entertainments, and who might reasonably have expected a paper professedly friendly to the Society to have protected them from insult and mean insinuations instead of giving them such notoriety as their circulation affords. — Your's, &c. AEeadeb. Invereargill, 6th August.