WANDERING JOURNALISTS. (To the Editor.)

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 293, 11 September 1873, Page 6

WANDERING JOURNALISTS. (To the Editor. )

Sib, — A class of literatureoriginated I think in your columns — has of late become remarkably popular. It is unfortunate that the taste, good feeling, and information you generally contrived to combine in your efforts in this direction should be so utterly wanting in your imitators. Not content with being dull and tedious, they revel in a kind of elephantine scurrility which, I presume, is clodocratic for wit and humor. I desire specially to draw your attention to the wanderings of a creature calling "himself the "Peripatetic Jotter" in the last issue of the "Bruce Herald," which displays all the worst and most despicable features of this kind of journalism. There are, as you are aware, a considerable number of miners and settlers between Beaumont and Teviot. The writer in the " Bruce Herald " appears to have visited some of their houses, and in return politely stigmatises the whole as " miserable shanties." He rode through an interesting and remarkable tract of country, and only beheld one remarkable object —a dried barracouta! Is he sure that the sight of his own expressive countenance in a convenient mirror did not deceive him. But his next paragraph out' Herod's and shows how much flunkey - iam and scurrility can be condensed in half-a-dozen sentences. He makes an attack upon a gentleman whose only weakness was his support of the " Bruce Herald." Being absent he of course cannot defend himself, and our heroic " Jotter " sleeps secure "of a second horse-whippinc As a whole, the article must prove invaluable to Professor Sale as an unadulterated example of bad English and worse taste. It will serve as a kind of beacon to his class of what they are to avoid in composition and in courtesy. In conclusion, I'have only to remark that the "Jotter" brags of his long journeys. If it be his custom to pay all his hotel bills in the manner he adopted as regards Kis Moa Flat one, I do not think his travelling is likoly to load him to file hia schedule, or even adopt the milder alternative of a deed of arrangement.—Yours truly, G. Mt. Benger, September 4t.