BETWEEN YOU AND THE POST.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4927, 16 January 1895, Page 3

BETWEEN YOU AND THE POST.

[to the editor,]

Sir,—The livening Post seems mnch concerned because you have copied, without humble acknowledgment, what it modestly terms " our pretty little story " about the Minister, tho Lascar, and the Captain of the Port Melbourne, audit has decided cause to feel aggrieved. The Post possesses many merits, but wit is certainly not among its strong points, and it would be a cruel shame for it to lose tho crodit of even one success, If the truth were known, probably the worthy Captain told his yarn so woll, that even the Post could not spoil it in reproduction. Tour contemporary in upbraiding you also alludos to the nautical trifle, as " our importantparagraph." And so it is important for the Post, which, with its queer idea of proportions, is generally, when it tries to be sarcastic, very silly, or when it endeavors to be funny, absolutely appalling in its sense of humour,

I subscribe to the New Zealand Time?, and the Wairadapa Daily Times, and I usually read the Evening Post at tho pub. The latter, I must fain admit, has its good points. It can teach all you journalists bow to crowd concentrated news into the smallest possible compass, and extended advertisements into thelargest possible area an indulgont and long-sufEering circle of readers will ondure. Its proprietary has. made a signal study of the art of combining the give-as-little-as-you-can and get-as-mucb-as-possible, and has found it a very profitable occupation. This is merely commercial sagacity, a highly desirable virtue iu a thriving city" daily." Then the Post, which to my knowledgehasrepeatedly borrowed matter from your columns in the past, has original notions as to whatconstituteß a generous acknowledgment, for on those rare occasions when it has condescended to accredit you as the source of its inspiration, it quotes" a Wairarapa paper," as if you were a uameless thing of no better manners than itself. Somebody onco said that be marvelled that a newspaper which possessed such business acumen and had made so many progressive advances as the livening Post, had never tried the obvious advantge of retaining a gentleman on its staff. Ono is now tempted to think that the reproach has nover been removed! I am, etc,, Ghill-'eh, | Masterton, 15th September.