The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News and the Morning News. TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1876.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1605, 6 April 1875, Page 2

The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News and the Morning News.

TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1876.

For the cause thnt lncks nssißtnT>r»y For the wrong tc.ut needs resistance, "•>r the fsture in ihv toHiuu:*. A»4 thfi KVH& tUat vre cm do.

It is amusing as it is gratifying to observe the newspaper excitement caused by our "special correspondent" in the King country. At the present time he is the best abused member of the press in New Zealand the cause of it all being very easy to understand. The Cross this morning fairly bristles over with the " Star's special." Ono of that journal's correspondents telegraphs from Alt xandra. "In all probability the articles in the Evening Star are derived from information furnished by a Thames man, now atTe Kuiti on a visit to Moff.itt." In what way the Cross correspondent made this discovery we are not told, nor yet why it should be to our contemporary a matter of anxiety to know whether our special has gone from the Thames or from Auckland, or growsd at Te Kuiti. But our contemporary has made another discovery. Our special, ii appears, only got so far a" Kopua, the next native settlfment to Te Kuiti. " I have just learned," telegraphs this correspondent, " tha' the Star reporter has been tenibly humbugged aneut the natuie of the meeting. He was never up thore He was stopped by Kewi at Kopua, where he stopped a week with a Pakeha-Maori, from whom he gleaned his information." So our contemporary has caught him at last; and another correspondent descends to particulars, and tells his name. He says, "Thompson info? Ms me thattheSTAß)s"Wpecia],"JolinNott, never went farther than Kopua, where he stayed with a white man called Thompson, and that Moffattleffc him." T3ut no ! The Special did not even get so far, or if he did his eyes must be closed; for his description is all wrong together. "Am just in from Te .Kuiti. Have read the Auckland Star's Special's description of Te Kuiti and the meeting of the natives. It is incorrect in every particular, and shows a want of knowledge of the road, the place, and the people, which only the Editor of Star could be guilty of." Why the poor Editor should be dragged in, or his habitual ignorance revealed we know not. He has not been abroad but has kept pegging away at people in this office, and would as soon think of venturing his hea J into those outlandish parts as he would into a lion's mouth. But why all this excitement over our " Special." Any one can understand. The most unmitigated untruths and the most stupid assertions and suspicions have been ventured about him. tfust the same as when Stanley was sent to find out Livingstone ; just as when his mission, and even his discovery, were characterised as American bunkum. So parva componere magnis is it with our special at the great and exclusive native meeting at Te Kuiti. We have managed it. For obvious reasons we shall give no clue to his identity, till the service' is accomplished ; and in the [meantime we shall bear with the stupid and unworthy envy of contemporaries, . the dull monotony of whose existence has been so. often rudely shocked by our departure from the paths of humdrum.