THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1878.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2806, 11 February 1878, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1878.

A Pbess Agency telegram which appeared in the Herald of Saturday morning, and a 'message" of a similar tenor from tho Auckland Star's special in London— published by the Advertiser to-day as confirmatory of the calogram which appeared in our issue of Saturday—gave an air. of credence to the rumoured occupation of Stamboul by tho Kussiana. We would, however, wish to disabuso the minds of our readers of the impression attempted to be conveyed by our morning contemporary to-day, that there 13 anything later or more reliable in the messages ho has published. .It is absolutely not the case. Tho tola! messages received are three in number, and are from different -'sources. That we published on Saturday was one of "Eeuter's special to Press Agency," and, from the magnitude of tho association controlled by Eeuter, is likely to bo as nearly correct as "rumour" could possibly be, besides which it was positively the latest message of the three. The first message on the same subject the Advertiser gives today is copied from the Auckland Star, and gives the substance of the message we received and printed on Saturday. The second message, given as a " confirmatory dispatch " appeared in Saturday's Herald as " special to Press Agency," it came independently of Heuter's Agency, and must have been received some twelve hours before tho message we published; and which the Advertiser states it is a confirmation of! We would also refer to the date to show conclusively that the information from the three sources is one and the same rumour, as two of them are dated 11 London, Thursday evening," the other, "London, February 1." The fact is, our contemporary ought to have had the Press Agency's "special" report of the affair in Saturday's paper, the same as the Herald had. Lacking the public spirit to do this, he copies from all and sundry, and endeavors to make it appear that he has the latest news. Hence appears the stupid anomaly in this morning's paper, of the first message received regarding the rumoured occupation of Stamboul by tho Russians being printed as a " confirmatory dispatch " of two others received at least twelve hours later.