THE LEADING JOURNAL CRITICISED.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2853, 6 April 1878, Page 2

THE LEADING JOURNAL CRITICISED.

(To the Editor of the Emm Stab.)' Sib,—lt has long been a mdn of astoniahment to me now the people of the Thames pat up with a paper conducted in the way your morning contemporary ii. I am sure the smallest township in the Colony would be ashamed of such a farrago of rubbish. Take to-day's issue at a sample: in the leader, which is supposed to enlighten us colonists on political matters at home, we are told that " Sir Charles Adderley has been elected to the peerage;" the would-be authority on English politics seems not to be aware that peerages can only be conferred by the Crown, and evidently thinks a states* man is raised to the Upper- House by a Tote either of its members or some other electoral body. Then we are treated to a a letter from the maundering scribe who signs himself "Auckland Rambler/ an infliction we hare been spared lately, owing, it appears, to hit absence in Wellington, which place he feebly abuses; then makes an application to the Waste Lands Board from a Victorian preacher a vehicle for a sneer at the clergy generally, and follows it up with a savoury story about the upsetting of a cart of slaughterhouse garbage. Byway of a change we are favored with a sermon on the Catholic faith, against which, per ac, I hare nothing to ssy; but which is hardly a subject of general interest. Tbat a respectable daily journal should think such a bill of fare, seasoned with scraps of old news full of inaccuracies, fit for its subscribers and the public, argues a contempt for their opinion and a confidenco in its own position, as baring a safe monopoly, which it is a pity is not disturbed by a little healthy competition, —I am, Ac, B.

April 6th, 1878.