THE CROSS AGAIN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume II, Issue 4230, 4 June 1875, Page 3

THE CROSS AGAIN.

To the Editor of the Herald. Sir., —After the thorough trouncing you have lately given the Craw, after having exposed all its shifty ways and little inauceuvrings,—having, in short, turnedit inside out and shewn the poor materials of which it is composed, it has, I observe, deserted its editorial columns and again taken refuge in letter writing as a medium for its weak attacks. Will the Cro*s be good enough to answer the following question ? If it be the able and talented paper it would make its readers believe, how comes it to pais that after such a Ion" effort and so much financial engineering it has sunk so low in general estimation, and has received such a miserable support that at its last annual meeting it did no( declare one 2*lllll/ of dividend to the most unfortunate shareholders 5 Will the Cross make answer and say ? I have long been an attentive reader of the Heraij), but I have never learned from its columns that "you coolly advised persons to set the laws at defiance." I have no doubt the Cross. would like to do with the Herald -what it recommended in the case of an innocent child, falsely charged with fire-raising,— chloroform you out of existence. I will call to the memory of your readers how, when Sir George Grey was about to enter upon public life, the Cross went dead against him. Then, when he received other instructions, he went about on the opposite tack, until word came from the real head-quarters that he was to go back again to a dead set upon the member elected for City West. I can well imagine the controlling power of the Cross exclaiming, in the language of the irritated cabman in Pickwick, '• Xow then, vich way ai.il to drive? Make up your minds, and say vich way it is to be. I only wants to know vich way, when your minds is made up."—l am, &c, A Disgusted " Cross'' Shareholder.