New South Wales.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3012, 25 September 1888, Page 2

New South Wales.

An old Daily Ofhce compositor j writes to us from a neighboring colony ,as follows Having a few" minutes • to spare just now, 1 thought I would i drop you aline or two to let you I know how lam getting along. lam ■ still at■ the "Call" office, and am | getting on very well. New South Wales has been troubled with a , manaift for libels lately. On the 29th i of last month, Mr Melville, M.L.A. ' sued Mr Willis,. proprietor of the " Call" for L2OOO, but owing to the , plaintiff hoing out of the colony at : the time the caso came on forbearing the action foil through with costs ' against him. Then there was the , Ilaynes-Fletcher affair, in which the ■ former , sued tho latter for LSOOO ' damages, owing to the defendant 1 attempting to throttle him during a debate.in the Assembly. The defendant paid L 5 into Court as full com- ■ pensation, and the verdict was given 1 against Haynes with costs. The libel case in which G. R. Dibbs, late Premier N,S.W. Parliament, endeavoured to obtain L 25.000 only from the " Daily Telegraph" proprietors, Sydney, has just been completed and a verdict ha? been given for

I'iuimm iur jjxvv uuu UUatS, •WlilCU amounts to several thousand pounds. On commenting on the verdict the same paper has again irritated Mr Ditbs, and lie has issued a writ for LIO.OOO damages. There are several others,' but these are tho principal ones. In connection with tho '■ Call" they have started a oalled the " Northnmherjand Budget," ajournal of 20 pages. The price is three pence. I do not think it takes so well as expected, as the Sydney weeklies have a very strong hold in the Newcastle district. Just lately I 'was offered the management of an lip-country paper, but as 1 did not jiliiiik it a safe spec I did not accept it. Tlio gentleman said he wanted spmeone who he knew ho could trust and lie gave nif tlio first cl;pco.' /I have been, elecfed. .to represent the ''Call" office on the delegate Board of Uie Northern Branch of the N.S. W. Typographical Association,. meetings of which are held every month, They wanted me to stand for Vice-President, but I did not think I was capable of fulfilling the duties, so I declined. The allabsorbing topic of conversation here at the: present time is the general Strike among the npners. A committee of citizen's endeavoured' to bring bgtli masfers' and ' miners together, biii failed; aiifj then tjie Hon, J, N, lliiiistef. f()j, : Lands, was phq.?en p jjedifltor, ij,nd Bijcceed.ed"; but having inet, arid plg'ced tlfeir draft appents side by side, there was so much difference between the two that.it was impossible for them to come to tonus, and now they are further apart than formerly—oue ondeavoring to crash the other. It is hoped that the non-associated collieries will accept the miners agreement, and' so keep Newcastle from dying an '■ unnatural" deatji, as tliere is plenty $ 'fiifeifr 'to ; da atlhe present iWi Hie of large vessels, with 100 wore listed.to pome on here to load.coal. It isinaking it bad for every todo, In our line n are on - ii still worse prospect before us. If the strike is not soon settled the- papers gwiijijt live.;: Mr 'Bennett',; son' Of'Mr •Bennetr'iii another paper oalled the Durham Chroniclo and is getting along ; Very weMHe has got the.whole''distfiol to himself) so lio should succeed^