A NEWSPAPER STRIKE.

Marlborough Express, Volume VII, Issue 460, 28 December 1872, Page 7

A NEWSPAPER STRIKE.

The Southland News, in its issue of the 27th November, says : “The telegraphic system, by means of which the readers of journals published in out of theway districts of the colony are kept nearly as well informed as those resident in the leading towns on all matters of importance, is undoubtedly a very useful ‘ institution. ’ So far as the general public is concerned its benefits are unalloyed. With the Press, however, the case is somewhat different —indeed we shall not he exceeding the truth in saying that journalists find telegrams neither convenient not profitable material for filling their columns. As a matter of fact, they simply anticipate by a few hours’ information' which would come to hand in a more regular available shape by means of ‘exchanges ’ and the postal service. It seems almost needless to say that as telegrams do not enable journals to dispense with each other’s good offices in the matter of interchange of files, the ‘ wire ’ is a new source of expense, without the slightest tangible set off. The sum paid last year for Press telegrams iu New Zealand was £2500. To this must be added agency charges, amounting probably to a nearly equal figure—to say nothing of the long hours of weary waiting on the ‘ latest wire news’—hut too frequently of the slightest possible interest. To balance this outlay of money and time there is absolutely nothing. Wo question whether the subscribers’ list of any journal in the colony has been lengthened because of the importation of telegraphic news into its columns. The public at large may be gainers—at all events their craving for fresh intelligence is supplied—but the publishers are taxed for their gratification. This may seem a narrow view to take of the subject, but, regarded in a business light, ijb admits of no other treatment. In the neighboring colony of Victoria the position of the press in the matter has been of late brought under the notice of the Government, and its claims upon tire whole community have been explicitly admitted. A thousand words may now be transmitted during certain hours of the day to and from any part of the colony for 10s fid. In New Zealand, for the same number of words, £1 13s fid is the present charge—a serious difference, it will be admitted, especially when taken in connection with the comparatively limited circulation of even the ‘leading journals,’ which are but little read beyond the province in which they arc published. A reduction to X\ per thousand words is to be made at the beginning of next year, but the immediate adoption of the Victorian scale—which seems nearly as low as it may well be, consistently with the idea of making the telegraphic department self-supporting—would have been more judicious. It must be admitted that the reduction was resolved upon before the Victorian telegraphic tariff was lowered, and hence it may be inferred that the .Government would not be disinclined to reconsider the matter. In themeantime we need only say that suchanoccurrence as a newspaper strike—against telegrams —is by no means beyond probability. Something of the kind is even now seriously contemplated in Australia, where, since the establishment of direct communication with England, the cost of telegrams has become oppressive, while the messages are found to be excessively dull reading.” MARAVILLA COCOA Opinions of the Press.—' 1 Those who have not yet tried Maravilla will do well to do so.” —Morning Post. 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