MR SHEEHANS'S MOTION AND THE "WAIKATO TIMES."

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 650, 22 July 1876, Page 2

MR S HE EHAN S' S MO TION AN D THE " WAIKATO TIMES."

VVk have been somewhat n mused lately nt the outciy ra stul by certain persons in Waikato that tins journal |\vaB a. subsi 'lisf'd organ of the Government, and know ing only too well the difficulty a news papu* in a new ami scattered district gnch as this Las in keeping its head abov< water, we have felt somewhat chagrined that there was really so little oftiuth in the accusation. M r Sheehan, as will be seen by tt-leguuu elsewhere, inspired with the same Of)inion, or acting as the mouthI ice? of certain jmrties in Auckland hub, we are glad to observe, tabled a motion asking, wh.it money has been paid by tin ( Tov«>i f niuent to tho Waikato Tim 3. \W .ire thankful to Mr Sh-ehan, for while wr acaicely felt called upou to notice remarks ina'le eloewhere, he Ims afforded ns an op[lorhmity of putting any misconception sti i^iit. We c nn. -I of coarse an-wor fm what was done 111 the days of Mr Jones' proprieti rship, bat since than to the pre B4IIC time the am mat received from the (ieiiHiiil Government for printing 1 by this journ. 1 has been £25 7.* 6d, and lov advertising a further suru of £119 12-, 6d. ■vi u'Udttht; declaration will bomoro satis fictury to Mr Hh »rhan tl.an it is to 0111 -five*, for the amount imsjht well Il.lv <een doubled witn mt m the slightest deyrei* bnng oalunl ite-1 to iiff'Ct our indcj>oti<!(M>ce. 'J x l»»»r«.* is mjr mi item "w|iic!i w.ll not ncveSo.u^ fen ti.o juiblic intenM

ilild tinl at the district. l>tit tli.it It should h ivp lifii inserted, and scarcely one that ,\ Cr >MM-uri)i*iib wish any dfepnev could have i- 'hiwd, even to t,hp most hitter opposition i) ift'v, v, linn the onh medium for udvertisi njr in the <lHtiioi. The truth is, this Opposition cry of bn\ itia: newspapeis by favoritism in the ilihjKMih»tiua of (.Tnvernmpufc a'lrertise.iit nts is a rery silly and io-nonint oiip. V sijuilur cliarqp charge was lately madt' iLfainst the "Cros," aud tlie prjduction of iccoiiiits sliewi'd tlmt letlly the Crijas'.s ■hare whs less than that of its opposition •outeinporrtri<\s. It is far moi c profitable for a proprietor, far easier for an •ditor to be in opposition, but ra.illy thi^ lever enters itito ciilculation at all. We nuke bold to suy that there is not a pivpei ia the Colony that so piostitutcs itself Newspaper organs may be ht.irted in the intHivst eitl»Rr of the (xoverument or o) Oppo.Mtioru or of any particular party, imd ->hall it be said that such journal shall be blamed it" it advocate a particular policy. Jiher.i again, a>» the Tnncs, am started on i purely oonunerc ial bii»is, and, as such, are bound fo faithfully represent the interest -of the district in which, and foi which they are published. This, we have • lone, and nothing more. We trust thai in future per.soiw like the editor of the Wamuiga, Mr Shouh in, will exercise mor< caution in bringing forward motions coiidetaniinr thosu who, like himself, an engaged in literary ventures.