SIR GEORGE GREY AND THE ADVERTISER.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3471, 9 February 1880, Page 3

SIR GEORGE GREY AND THE ADVERTISER.

(To the Editor of the Evening Stab.) Sib, —Will you kindly allow me to make a few remarks on the culpable negligence of your contemporary in the marked absence of any fair description of the cordial reception of Sir George Grey on his arrival at the Thames. The paltry excuses made in this morning's paper are simply disgusting to every lover of -the truth. I take it that it is the duty of a newspaper to publish news, not a garbled account to suit those who are enabled to put in what they like and keep out or alter anything that does not suit their present or ulterior views. This, I am sorry to say is constantly done at the office of the Thames morning paper, and if they would call it The Country Journal, and let it be known that it was opposed to the Borough and the interests of its inhabitants as such, we should know what to do, viz., cease subscribing, to or advertising in

it, and club together to support a newspaper that would try to publish the whole truth without fear or favor. Surely the success that has attended the Auckland Evening Star for this very reason should be sufficient inducement. Shortly, the- facts are these:—The Borough and County Councils, as such, declined to take any part in the reception, but the Mayor and another gentleman privately provided carriages for Sir George Grey and the Attorney General, who was entitled to be received with the proper respect due to a Minister of the Crown. The services of the Hauraki Engineer Band wero also secured by a few electors, who agreed to pay all necessary expenses of the reception.—l am, &c, t lßoy-