WELLINGTON.
August 5. The Times apologises this morning for ita insult in reference to pressmen and says " We used the term undesirable class the other day in a collective and not in an individual sense, we meant it to include reputable as well as disreputable men of any calling, for our argument, bore exclusively upon the desirableness of elevating the status of the legal profession aa much as possible, because of its important bearing less upon public than upon private life." It would have been better had the Times plainly stated that the offensive leader was publiehed through inadvertence. Fuller details relative to the accident on the Masterton line show that the passenger carriages had even a more narrow escape than at first supposed from following the timber trucks over the embankment, in which case the loss of life would have been serious.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3153, 5 August 1881, Page 3
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143WELLINGTON. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3153, 5 August 1881, Page 3
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