THE PRINTING AND STATIONERY JOB.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XIV, Issue 996, 13 January 1857, Page 3

THE PRINTING AND STATIONERY JOB.

To the Editor of the Southern Cross. Sir, — Your expose of the contract job for printing, &c. obtained by the proprietor of the ' New-Zealander,' at an advance of one hundred and fifty per cent, upon the former contracts, has called forth a letter from Mr. W. C. Wilson, partner of Mr. Williamson, which appears in last Wednesday's paper, in which that gentleman states that " Mr. Williamson relinquished without reserve in any form his interest in the existing contrnct for printing." Now, Sir, with all due deference to Mr. 'Wilson's veracity, I cannot make myself beliere that his assertion will go down with the public generally, much less with myself, Does Mr. Wilson mean to say that Mr. Williamson hat ceased to be his partner, and that he has ceased to have any connection with the printing office — the very press, in fact, which prints the contract work in question. Mr. Wilson admits that it is our establishment ; but. would wish to make it appear that he alone is contractor. As for stationery, which Mr. Wilson did not " nor did any one connected with our establishment tender to supply it. 1 ' Who then does supply stationery, and other ai'ticles ? It was only a few days since I happened to walk into Mr. Williamsons stationery shop, when the shopman was busily engaged making up a list of articles for some one or other of the departments of the Provincial Government. These articles were being selected to fulfil a requisition, which lay upon the counter and which was in the usual printed form, comprising a long list of articles, which I did not distinguish ; but the requisition was signed J. Williamson, Superintendent. Perhaps Mr. Wilson or some one else, will inform us whether Mr. Williamson has also relinquished all connection with his stationery shop. He is, in my opinion, just as likely to have relinquished his interest in that as in his printing press. I am, &c. Ax Observes. January 2, 1857. [We give insertion to our correspondent's letter ; but know as little of the private arrangements of the ' NewZealander' printing office as they do of our own.]