THOSE SPECIAL CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 306, 28 November 1883, Page 3

THOSE SPECIAL CABLEGRAMS.

. — :oo: — :: j Our contemporary is very sore because the Standard is ahead t of it m everything. Our special cable news, which is sent only to the S'Tiii dard, has roused 'the dear old gentleman's ire. "WTvy, our contemporary should know by this time that our country edition, for vhich that same cable news is specially- wired us, is printed, pub Hshed, circulated, and read all round Foxtori, 'Ashum, Bmniythorpe, ahd the other districts where the Times is never seen aiid almost unknown, hours bejbre our conleojporary goes to press Bi|fc there is no use m getting an^ry | and using bad language, over the | matter. : The Times cannot d^riy the faqt that the news m question is sent only to tho St>ndaUd. ' If the Times feels tliac it* being ; left hopulessly behind, as it knows <o well, and' as the friends and foes alike of both papers adroit, and have told its editor over and over again, it should try to be submissive, or else put forth a little more energy. • And then to use such terms as ';" absolute falsehood," and the writer a J PPa. — a real live J.P., arid formerly a go* pel preacher. Fie! -Fie. Some friend ought to reason with him gently, and try to reconcile him to the inevitable. Poor fellow, We often pity him, when wo learn how haggard he is looking. What with bad Iheatrical specs, and other similar disappointments, he is wetting fretful, careworn, and promaturely 1 aged. But' he must keep up his spirits, arid not be : downhearted. Let him continue to watch for a chance to" abuse us, and pray for resignation. Our heait sometimes bleeds foil him, when we hear of his mi^fort anes from one source and another. Fate seems dead" against him. This is why we often look ovei much that otherwise we would call him to acdount for. He takes to heart teri'ibly anything we writeahout him and passes a Bleepleng night, and next morning looks the pictv.ro of woe and wretchedness, It is this knowledge that disposes us not t<t be hard upon ~him, as he is so very .sensitive and broods so;