MR COG HUN AND THE "DAILY MAIL.”

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 13937, 20 December 1905, Page 7

MR COG HUN AND THE "DAILY MAIL.”

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, December 18. Mr T. A. Coghlan, in a letter to the “ Daily Mail,” ridicules the allegation of that newspaper that an attempt was made by the New South Wales Government to muzzle its correspondent at Sydney. Mr Coghlan contends that during September, as the “Mail” declares, its correspondent truly stated that several farmers, namely, three, left Now South Wales for Chili; but this was apparently transmuted in the “Mail” of September 29 into a significant and sustained exodus. Mr Coghlan adduces many proofs of the sincerity of his Government in the matter of immigration, and denies that the Labour Party in any State of the Commonwealth declared war on “the god of capital and his children.” The “ Mail,” in reply, maintains that its correspondent was threatened. It quotes a telegram of September 28 as significant of a sustained exodus, and protests against the suggestion that, because the “Mail” did'not quote the whole message, it admitted that the portion omitted was concocted in London. The paper says that Mr Coghlan ought to tender an ample apology for a gross breach of fairness in suggesting that part of the telegram was oonoooted in London.