MR JUSTICE CONOLLY ON THE PRESS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXVI, Issue 71, 28 March 1892, Page 2

MR JUSTICE CONOLLY ON THE PRESS.

The Mio Zea and Herald reports fchafc la the course of his summing up ia the libel action Br.gt.am v. Kelly and Baulf, Mr Justice Conolly mado the following remarks on the Press of New Zealand :-« Thore are many olasses of newspapers in exiatenoe. but those m this oolony may be divided into three olasses. We have the daily newspapers published in the centrea of * population, iv the large cities, and these newspapers as a rule are conducted with ability, with vigour, with deooruro, and are suoh aa might b 9 quite favourably compared with the newspapers publiahed in the matropoha of the United Kingdom. Thaa we have the other smaller newspapers -nearly every village has ita uewapaper. Theaa are probably noi ao ably eonduofced, aad aoaemneanotao fairly, but mfcn tegwd to the newspapers m fche maiu cities, though We may differ entirely from them in the*? political viewa or m other matters, it muab be admitted that they are oondnct<3d with nSiS.rl daC0 f,!l m ftnd neTer <*«*<*«<* to personal abuse. Then there are other papers, both here and m the old country, what are oalled sooiety papers, whose whole mission seams to me to be abuso and misoaiefmaking Whether or nob the Observer comes under that category I leave the jury to