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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5266, 9 July 1888, Page 2

Ttme after time we have boon amused by comparing tho cablegrams published in Now Zoaland with the originals aa they appear in Australia. In tho Melbourno "Argus tho result of tho Asoot Stakes is given as follows : —" Dandeiieer first, Chippeway second, and Banter third." In Now Zealand the cabled result was:—" Exrnoor first, Cotillon second, and Osric third." The matter may bo of not tho slightest importance to colonists, but if worth cabling at all, surely it was just aa well that tho names forwarded might bo thoso of tho placed horses. We assume, of course, that the Australian papers are correct. In reference to Mr Stanley, the explorer, tho Melbourne Argus published the following cablegram:— " Later intelligence has been recoived of Mr H. M. Stanley's expedition for tho reliuf of Einin'Pat>ha. In April last tho oxploror and his party, who had been greatly harassed by tho natives, wore entrenched on tho Upper Aruwhini, a tributary of tho Congo. In the fighting which had taken place Mr Stanley was severely wounded by an arrow. In consequence of the hostility of tho natives, tho party hail been compelled to usu the reserve stock of provisions which was intended for Ernin Pasha. Tho party had been greatly weakened by desertions and sickness, a third of Mr Stanley*) native followers having left him, whilo many inombors of tho expedition were proetrnlod by illness. Major Barttelot, who had boon left by Mr Stanley in churgo of a enmp on tho Aruwhini, had made great efforts to organise a relief party, but without avail:" In New Zealand, under tho same date, the message wa.s as follows:—"Tho London Daily Telegraph'« correspondent, wiring from Loanda, states that H. M. Stanley, in an encounter with «omo hostile tribes, was wounded by an arrow. Ho assprte that Stanley is surrounded by hostiletribes, nnd that two-thirds of his followers had either benn killed or had deserted him. A relief expedition has started to reecuo Stanley." Tho dilfercnco between tho i two is vory great. Tho ono upouks of tho London Daily Telegraph; the other ie silent, Tho one eayN wnero tho wiru was from ; the other is silent. The one says ho is Hurrouitdod by hostile tribes (which was very likely at any point of Ids travels) ; tho other says the natives wero hostile. Tho ono Bays two-thirds of his followors had oither been killed or had deserted him; tho other says a third of his followers had left him. The one says v relief party had started; tho other cays tho efforts to organise a relief party had failed. In a previous message,-by dropping the initial letter of the word harassed,- wo got tho name of a wondorful native tribe, of whom some writers wore ablo to supply very valuable particulars. Thoso errors in oabfo messages may bo as nmneing as selections from schoolboys' essays, but they aro not exactly what newspaper proprietors pay for, or expect to receive in return for their hard cash.