Auckland Star and Mr Perrier.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2080, 3 September 1875, Page 2

Auckland Star and Mr Perrier.

[BY T'ELEGBAPtt.]

(fkosi a correspondent.)

Y/ELLINGTuN.

Thursday. The following letter has been published :—

AN EXPLANATION

To the Editor of Hie New Zealand Times,

Sir,—The Auckland Evening Star of tlia 23rd ult. contains telegrams purporting to have been, sent by me. lam not aware that I ever sent a telegram to the Star in. my life. Before the wellknown proprietor and editor of that p?per —the Rev. Geo. McCullagh Reed — came down to- Wellington for the present session, I received a letter from his subeditor, Mr Leys, asking me to keep him "posted up " in certain information which Mr Leys seemed to think was at' my disposal, aud on Mr Reed's arrival that gentleman preferred a similar request. He expressed some astonishment at finding that I had no peculiar sources of information, his own newspaper experience having apparently taught him to expect that a person in my pos'tion should have a kind of hole and corner access to the doings of any party hia paper might in a general way support. Having no such information, and to loolc for such not being expected as among.-.!; the duties of the employees of the Neiv Zealand Times, I was uuablo to keep him " posted up;" but I will tell you what I did do—most foolishly I admit —as thinking that I was dealing with a proper member of my profession, I asked for reporters to tell him what had been going on in tb.s Legislative Council or House of Representatives during his frequent absence .<•:, rendered necessary by his hole an;" cornering Sir Geo. Grey and others of his party, and I gave him access to precis of Parliamentary Papers, which I was then > making in abundance for transmission to respectable journals; nay, more, I have. given him permission to duplicate my i telegrams of these precis, for his ; own ' journal. He left Wellington professing the most fervid thanks. From our relations here he must have had some doubt about the telegrams he received purporting to be signed by me, but without inquiry- he published them, and named me in my professional capacity as sub-editor of the New Zealand Times. Even a dog which you feed does not forget kindness. I nave fortunately preserved Mr Ley's letter to me —why, Ido not know; but it is lucky I did so, or perhaps the Auckland Evening Star would contain a vehement denial of what I have asserted ■, and can prove.—l am, etc., ...„•.- < a; John M. Pesbier.