The Evening Star FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21 1877.
Foil Press purposes the telegraph offices in the principal cities in the Colony are in future to he kept open till 10 pm. daily. This is another indication of Dr Lemon's strong leaning towards the morning journals. When the cheap rates were brought into operation the evening journals made strong representations of the unequal operation of the tariff, and memorialised that one hour in the morning—it was left to :he department to suggest what hour would le the most convenient for it—should be given for the tr.msm'ssion of messages for evening papers at cheap rates ; lutDr Lemon scouted the proposal, which would have only been a meed of justice to very profitable customers of the department. The evening papers have a niis'ra'le allowance of 500 words ; while their morning contemporaries will now be accorded the use of the wires at cheap rates for five lrurs a day, without any limit as to the quantity of the news that may be forwarded. As if we were not sufficiently handicapped already, the Djpa>tment insists on charging full prices for messages that owing to a break it), or interruption to the wire?, do not reach us until the day following their delivery for trau-misbion, when their ptactio.l ut■ lity is lost to us. And this i cashiered fair.
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Evening Star, Issue 4622, 21 December 1877, Page 2
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