THE GOVERNMENT CHEQUES AFFAIR.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5384, 17 May 1879, Page 2

THE GOVERNMENT CHEQUES AFFAIR.

The Oamaru Times of yesterday has the following in reference to the reported dishonoring of Government cheques :— " We cannot protest too strongly against the practice which is becoming only too common amongst nowspaners in the colony of making mountains out of mole hills of gossip. The agents of the Press Association throughout the colony aro made to carry oh their business as though, , they were members of a cabal of old '

Wpnien, sp'eoially coWmWo'n'eftao" circulate ±he latest neW ; s ab'diit th&teethW f$ W e8 > which indee'dvfbuldWe'a'uite f? sonVe of Vthe eiecrable twaddle; which the agents ? send 'flashinff y MprLfr the midnight wires. ' iThe latest/ flaririg -instance of:the abuse of theiii 1 rtself^eicellent organisation; the Press* Assdciatidnj # f drnislied • from 1 Christ churol^.tfbou't an at'fclole hi iHe' TMM respecting a certain Gfo'vemm le!it1 e!it clieqHie not" Hiving been hbtobred^tHtie battk-m Timaru.f^, It is probable enouffh that such had been the' case, aud equafiy that the sole cause was^soiSe \WtL tidniplidnoe wjtli- ai'^epa^mental regulation. Of course; the Hera IdiWith' its'-- pluck-like' ' procnvities'pMSlT -not write on 7, Subh eubjeSD wi3T put indulging hi some characteristically maleyplent, insinuation.. agaihst^the.Gtn. vprnmeat and its unances^^b^fffl amused the Herald,- but. it/ could not ■possibly do the Government-, any Wm.i 'However:,"^ someone. who probably, thinks all, the Herald^safa iis ''gospen^^ fgrdjjhed ; so'me twaddle to'i'WeDinfrtoii. yHeh^^faie^ranlpy did 0 , began' td 'handle about matters asthoiifli ; it threatened 'to place the solar system in f i^^ e^M^y.,,Mo^,than f tW 8 , m \Lyttelton Times must heeds , publisn an : -4 l ®? 11 i ? t . wh S3^^W the Herald^ :with;all the gravity of | a^grandsire grW- H 'beard wli'en he ..rebuke's'; seme^graceleii 'gra]tssdn . fdr 1 Hi^;,oollfg^ freaks;' SJJ the trasTiLtd, be alllnlJJ r mOrnirig..parjlersrin the colony^o*' pVljj6™^ 1 cation in their rcohinirisj the Uani.q morningt^ as- -itlappeafed in. its! own. .This iatit&ji than idiotic conduct sppaksJJf or ,itsel£,^ufefi, were the Lyttelton Times really the great joiirnal"whicb. it' is 'thoughtTj-to: teeaiiilßll -Tipiarii ff«'flWwbuld ] hWe t reasb I n'yi|Peell plrbhd: - The! f adt, hcrvyev.erj 'of matter'oiily;amduhtS t6 : 'aii ; ;iiifiiiltdde* li; W^ cackling,;6v6'r'"aii f mfii^tWunal^am o'^ wheat." •■•'"■ :""'': 1 ' : ' i •"-""xfeioqu* "toa-