THE NEW ZEALANDER AND THE AUCKLAND PRESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 296, 24 October 1864, Page 4

THE NEW ZEALANDER AND THE AUCKLAND PRESS.

Jits Excellency's paper, in what professes to lie a letter, ljut which tlio editorial we appearing in its sentences proves to be manufactured in the olliee, attacks the rest of the Auckland Press as being " turned to the purposes of the Ministry," and remarks " but who pays the piper? li e " leave the interested public to judge." It tlien goes 011 to say, "judging of t-lie number of paper " engines now used by our Government, it will "be well to see where the money all conies '• from, for besides the two daily and one weekly "papers, the little "Entertaining" Ephemeral, " amongst all its pleasant wit and harmless " satire, comes down very lightly upon the im- " maculate .Ministry, and leads one to suppose "that they have received, or are taking for " their reward, to hit softly." As far as the Hjjrai.d is concerncd, none knows better than does the proprietor of the -iSem Z<nJ<nn/rr that this journal was started and has been continued with the bona fide capital of its proprietors, and not with burrotced mo/uy. It the writer of ilie scurrilous attack in the J\eic Zcuhittdcr, of Saturday, on the other journals published in Auckland still wonders how the two •" dailies" and one " weekly," which support the policy of the Assembly of which is the policy ol the AYhittaker Ministry, can manage to live, unless subsized by the Ministry, let us remind him that the policy which they advocate and support is the policy of the people of this City and Province, and that, as far as we, at least, are concerned, our subscribers' list, instead ot dwindling down to iiil. is "quickly and steadily increasing, and to a degree that surprises even ourselves, —that we have, thanks to the mercantile public ot Auckland, 110 need to spoil a certain quantity ot paper each day, week after week, month alter month, and by the year, with advertisements never paid for, nor ever ordered to appear; nor with .Kates of Postage, English dummies, and others that had better be left out altogether—nor, for the .sake of having auction advertisements in our paper, are we compelled to copy them gratis into our columns against tlie e-rprex. 1 ! order* of the gentlemen to whose business allairs they refer. If we have said more than it has pleased our cotemporary to hear, we can onlv remind him that he has provoked all this, and much more, and that lie richly deserved it for his gratuitous attack upon what, as tar as the Hekald is concerned, is as free, a'id independent, and unshackled a journal as was ever published.

rt ill becomes the conductors or the proprietor of the 3< ic 'Acalamlev to twit the proprietors ot other journals with men of .small means. Our readers will understand the f:>ree of this remark, and it is with feeling of regret that we observe the Xcic Zca/a'iuler adding io its personal attacks upon public Ilieil personal remarks upon the private aihiirs of men of business.