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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2046, 20 July 1885, Page 2

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Lord Lota's regime has been noto-. riouely the meanest of all thooecupantsof' Government House at Sydney, and his treatment of the reporters on a recent occasion his been very properly resented and severely criticised by the newspapow. The Sydney correspondent of the 'Argus' has this reference to the subject: "There was a State dinner at Government House in the evening, but of what happened, there is no formal record. No timely intimation was sent to the Press, but some time during the day an orderly scribbled on.a'dirty piece pf paper on the 'Herald' office counter-- 1 If a reporter: will coih'e to GovernmeifcHouse at 3 p, m, he will be able to take down. —J.L.M." This curiouß vice-regal, message with unknown initials, was directed to nobody, and the conductors of the journal were inclined to take no notice of it. As the occasion, however, was one of great -intercolonial interest, some reporters were sent up to see what convenience Providence, in the shape of Lord Augustus Loftus, had provided for the performance of a duty which, in the interest of Government House, they wore asked to discharge. On their arrival they were shywn into an anteroom, and placed behind a door with neither a chair to sit oil or a table tp write at, and finding that they could neither hear, see, nor write, they considered t|st the becoming course was to heat a retreat fi'Qii} tjeneath such an inhospitable roof. At a meeting of the poorestworkingmen, if the conductors want the speeches reported, they have enough common sense and good manners to see that the requesite convenience is supplied; but £7,000 a-year placed at the disposal of a seasoned diplomatist df>es not secure the correct thing being ddno at our Government which ought 1 ! to give the tone in majors. The neglect ] was not at all meant as\m insult; it was only a consistent part\ of the mingled muddle and meanness AaUiave prevailed at Government Hpuse.^l'