THE CAMBRIDGE FARMER'S CLUB AND THE WAIKATO TIMES.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 697, 2 December 1876, Page 2

THE CAMBRIDGE FARMER'S CLUB AND THE WAIKATO TIMES.

If our issue of the 11th of November l&st was not all that Mr Clark and those who took part in .the disc Lesion which followed his remarks on Tueidaj evening, oould hare wished, wo truit they will fco satii&Vl with thut of to-day ; for knowing that every man, woman, and ohild in Waikato, outside the Cambridge Farmers Club, was looking with breathless anxiety for the Ess-vy on wheai culture and the lesnon in tho rudiments of agriculture which the club were about to receive from their practical membor, tht President, we have published it this morning, ruthlessly sacrificing all other nows. social and political, thut stooil in its way. A member of the Club, ai will be scan by the report, rates us for not publishing the report of the Auckland Agricultural Show in our next i.sue after it wsi held, that of the 11th and further chargei uj with having exoluded that report for the take of getting in a two column report of the Masonio festival which occurred on tho sumo day. Really, it would seem as if the charge had been made without the slightest reflection. If those who made it had considered for a moment, they would have romembered that it was only at 7 p.m. on Friday, the 10th November, that the Auckland paper* containing the report of the show in Auckland on Thura d*y could pousibly coino to hand while we had the report of tho Maionio festival ready to put into the hands of tho printer it 9 am. on the Friday morning, ao that the Masonic festival roport was actually in print some hours before the account of the Auckland show reachod llAinilton.^That, we think, the Club will admit,-- meets the charge of preference But, putting atide that phase of tho matter, we mutt take tho opportunity of setting our agricultural friends right on the main point at lssne, the impossibility of -getting out next day a lengthy roport like tbat of the show (two and a half columns of imatl type), when only received so late as seven o'clock in the evening of the day before publication. In the first plaoe, that report had to be abridged and oondemed from one double its length, and with it there would alio arrive the nighU' telegrama, general news in Auckland papen and letters by post, and other matter Our staff of oompositors now, is larger than it was before this journal wm taken over by the preiont proprietor, and it keeps »U hands buiy through tho night, cren with the ordinary news coming in, to get the paper printed in time in the morning to catch the Auokland and upoouutry coaches and post. Now, two and a-half columns of matter coiniug on the top of this, in a country office, oannot be set. It la a sheer physical impossibility to do it. We oant go outside the door and press the first man that is willing to work into oar serrioe to help us in a punh of this kind, as Mr Clark oould do, if he saw the rain ooming, «xd wanted to got his hay in >btfore night. The populatiou of Htmilteu is not largely made up of ox-pr.nters. Neither oan we afford to keep a staff equal to suoh an emergency, to be ready once in every two or three months to meet it. The only alternative is, to pursue tho course we did, hold over tho report for another usue, and those who were lately so ready to oeneure us for doing so will, we think, now be prepared to admit that they were not then in a position to give an 'opinion on tho matter. This is, we trust, the last of this faultfinding we shall hear. For our own credits sake, we are as early as poaaiblo with all matters of nows, and we challenge any , one to produce another 'country journal in alj New Zealand, |ncing as wo do the same small type for all 'bat its loading article, which will show as much readiug matter as, or which devotes more of its space to agricultural subjects &hae does the Wai«kato Timeb. We cay nothing of the ability with which it la oonduoted. That we leave to the Cambridge Farmers Club, when, at its next meeting, it offers the amends for its uncalled for, and, all things considered, let us add, somewhat ungraoious remarks.