A PITIFUL PLAINT.

Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1735, 25 July 1874, Page 2

A PITIFUL PLAINT.

The Thames correspondent of the Corbmandel Mail transmitted the following telegram, which our Cororuandel justly characterised as "pitiful:"—" The Thames Star and Coromandel News havo combined to get Eeddell to giv« them this printingoftheroll, although the Advertiser is the only oflico in the district ablo to print it. Tfc is expected that influence has been. brought to bear to accomplish this, and an inquiry will be instituted. They are getting it printed by Atliin of Auckland,-; being unable to do it themselves. The Advertiser has had thft printing of the roll for several years past and always did it satisfactorily." It is well known whence the ab?ve emanated, and a more paltry exhibition of petty spleen we., never remember to have road. It is als* untrue: the Coromandel News has no interest whatever in the contract for printing ihe Thames Roll. As for the threatened inquiry we do not imagine that the Registration Officer will care a fig ; certainly the contractors do not. In the latter portion of tha telegram, which states that the Advertiser people have had. the printing of the roll for several years past, most people would see a very good reason why another /firm should have it for once, unless the Advertiser people want to monopolise all the "fat", which Government officers may have at their disposal. Decency would have suggested "(hat; the Advertiser people should conceal their disappointment, but it appears to have affected them so keenly that they mate use of the column* of the Mail to public assertions they would possibly be ashamed to print in their own columns.