The Westport Times AND CHARLESTON ARGUS. In the cause of Truth and Justice we strive. TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1871.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 800, 11 April 1871, Page 2

The Westport Times AND CHARLESTON ARGUS. In the cause of Truth and Justice we strive. TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1871.

We notice that several journals are complaining of the manner in which telegrams are forwarded to them from the various provinces, and, we may add, not without sufficient reason. Many of the agents appear to exercise no discretion whatever. Recently, on the arrival of the Suez Mail atHokitika, we were furnished with a repetition ot the news received a few days previously by the Californian line. From other portions of New Zealand we receive items which are often altogether without interest, and as often unintelligible. Take the following as a specimen, from a recent Auckland telegram : —" Tapihana has left for Kawhia. Believed large portion of New Zealand burned. Hudson railway accident." On receiving a clue to these puzzles, they became plain enough The explanation of the enigma was that there was an accideut on the Hudson Kiver Railway, whereby a portion of the mails for New Zealand were destroyed by fire. But the words quoted would not easily admit of such an interpretation. A correspondent from Alexandra sends a telegram on Si.turd iy, and repeats it in nearly the same words yesterday without adding in the slightest to our information. The transmission of frivolities and absurdities emanating from petty stations, is due to indiscretion and want

of judgment on the part of the authorised agents, and the sooner these are replaced the better. To pay for telegrams of no conceivable interest to the general public, whatever importance may attach to the events in the petty localities where they transpire, is undoubtedly an infliction to newspaper proprietors, as it must be also to the public who look for items of special interest under the head of telegraphic intelligence.