A LAME EXCUSE.

Evening Star, Issue 5036, 25 April 1879, Page 2

A LAME EXCUSE.

Mr Gillon, manager of the Press Association, writes to the * Post’ as follows : The Ass c ation’s correspondent- in Melbourne a d rjydnry, acting under my i strm turns, are both legally and mot ally justified in cabling to n:e any item of no«s they find published in the columns of any presumably resettable paprr in Australia- they think likely to interest New Zealand readers. That this news is published in is an ample ju tifioation for their sending it a;-d for the Aa-ocatlon using it. V\e have quite as much right to u-e the news published iu Austra ia ns your correspondents have to use the telegrams fom •-‘t Petersburg, t'erlin, Pans, India, etc., which appear in the London paperr, as the ban Francisco correspondents of the Press AmociaMon and Agency have to me the wonderfully fu.l telegrams of European news which a-p .’hr m the American paper-, and fiom which the mail summaries received bore are compiled. It is perfectly absurd to pretend having a right of property in news. Once it has been published, it becomes free to all by the act of publication. I can on y wonder at any presumably re.-per.t-able paper, however, publi lung as a fr>nn fide telegram, a concoction which it knew to be false. I observe that you threaten a repetition of Lie trick. lam quite content. I expect that the thousands of readers who are sold m Australia ' y such a trick will feel more agiicved than I d , and that the amusement of knowingly publbhiog false news will in the end prove an expensive. one lo thorn who indulge m it. For mj self, I am quite satisfied to a cept publication in a -Sydney newspaper ns a sufficient guarantee of tlm truthfubiesa of the intelligence, anl shad continue to do so ; a-al if the news lalse the shams rests with tho>e who knew it to be so. I receive and ci cuLte it iu good faith on what is primd facie a sufficient! good authority. Let mo scy also tnat » should not have thought your remarks, nor th-.'ss < f the Auckland ‘Star,’ worthy of the slightest notice or reply had you not, no doubt through mistaken kindreds, volunteered a defence of me personally 'against some imaginary attack or aeons itiou ; and I feel bound to ask you for space to extricate myself from the false position in which you e placed m?. In couclus o, I aruy say I have reasoi to believe your triumph ever the sell will be very short-lived, and that when the true facts are ku iwu the tables will be fou :d to be completely turned, and that you will deeply regret being mixed up with the affair. A man that is desirous to excel should endeavor it in those things that are in themselves most excellent. Neckties fur wearing with fur-lined cloaks, seal jackets, and velvet mantles are made of white Indian mull muslin, trimmed all round with crimped Breton lace, and terminating with four horizontal rows of the same. The width of such scarfs renders them exceedingly warm.