THE HERALD CORRESPONDENT.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2525, 15 September 1888, Page 2

THE HERALD CORRESPONDENT.

«. TO TUB EDITOR. Sin, —I was shown a recent issue of the Herald, in which its correspondent takes credit to himself for obtaining medical assistance for the natives of this district, who have been suffering so much from fever. Ho says that Dr. Murch was sent to Whatawhata " to ascertain the correctness of his representations" in the matter. Now, in the first place, there is "no such a person " as a Herald correspondent at Whatawhata. that imaginary individual being identical with a certain purveyor of news at Hamilton who conveniently dates his items from all and sundry localities in the Waikato, whether they are connected by telegraph or not. The trouble of the natives here first came under my notice and I drew attention to the state they are in through your columns, and in a sub-leader you urged that immediate steps be taken to send a medical man periodically to visit tho Maoris. The Herald correspondent cribbed the news from The Waikato Ti.mkm. I have obssn»d this is a eommon trick of his, and it was only the other day lie impudently took credit for the action taken by the Charitable Board in the case of McPhsrson, when it was the strong comments mado by yourself, that roused the Board. I am not a journalist, but I have been a contributor to Thk Waikato Tjmes for a long time, and I believe I am right in saying that such conduct as that of tho Herald correspondent is low-class journalism, and not creditable to a leading paper.—l am, etc., Yoch Whatawhata Cokuesponde.vt.

September 13th, 1888. [For whatever steps were taken in regard to giving relief to the natives at Whatawhata, credit is due entirely to our own correspondent, whose letter drew public attention to the state the Maoris have been in.—Ed. W.T.I