REPLY.

Southland Times, Issue 1009, 24 August 1868, Page 2

REPLY.

(TO THB XD^TlbB OF THR BOUTHLATO tnCifc) "■■_ Sib — Our attention has been drawn' to a local paragraph which appears in the .", Southland^ews'Lof, Saturday^thei^nd August, having reference to the^ publication of an almanac by iw. 1 . ?''.. Under ordinary-circumatanceap^wa-should not have thought it necessary to notice such ill-natured and spiteful remarks, but simply have treated them With contempt ; but as the . paragraph in question maliciously seeks to do us injury inour business capacity, at the same time that it flagrantly outsteps ' .the bounds \of legitimate criticism, ' we f feel . p 'Mcttmbent toioffer a lew words of^explanation. r We hare, .in- the first place, to iUte distinctly and emphatically -that werepu- ■••■ diate all intention of seeking to interfere with any other publication Hbhan' the one to be issued by us. . ■■***■ Secondly^— The title of the wo*k;tfhlell will be issued from our office is altogether different from that which Mr Hose, the. Bookseller, got printed,, hwJD ..year .in Dunedin— and it will not, in "any way resemble that person's former production. . t The work published by l^r Eoaie bean on the title page the following address ;—- The. " Southland Almanac and Ga' dener's Calander;" the prospectus issued by Ui ; bears the title of "The Southland Almanac and Directory for 1869," and in order to make it more distinctive from the mass of errors which appeared under the imprint of IVtr Hose last year, the very second day the prospectus appeared (in the Weekly Times,) we altered the title to "Beynolds* Southland Almanac and Directory for 1869." , ; 15 . . v . ,,r Now, in what manner we can Be accused of adapting the title of MrßoieV almanac to our. contemplated work it if impossible to conjecture, seeuigjtliatijntli the exception of the word almanac there is no other resemblance, and' it ii a matter for the public to consider whether a journal is justified in unwarrantably interfering and seeking to injure the business reputation of a firm which endeavors to advance its interests in a legitimate and straightforward manner. . , Apologising for occupying your columns in the discussion oorf r a purely business subject, we remain, Sir, Tour obedient servants, Reynolds A Go. l . August 22, 1868. \ " V ; !■ -