MORE JOURNALISTIC AMENITIES.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4134, 20 June 1874, Page 3

MORE JOURNALISTIC AMENITIES.

AT COROMANDEL. This is how the Coromandel Mail writes of its contemporary the News :—“ Amongst the passengers by the Lalla Eookh was Mr. Wilson, the gentleman referred to in the Mem as having had a press parcel abstracted from his pocket by Captain Hargreaves. The public can now ascertain for themselves the truth of this statement. We affirm on the most positive authority that Mr. Wilson has stated in public that on the occasion referred to lie acknowledged Captain Hargreaves to bo the proper person to have charge of the letter, and hence he surrendered it to his charge, and had he required it back again he could have had it by asking for it. As regards the non-delivery of the letter, this statement is but a natural addition to the tissue of venomous lies which disgrace that masterpiece of scurrility known as the Coromandel Notes. The evidence which will be brought forward in the action for libel, which will probably result, to prove that the letter was handed in to the Herald office, will demonstrate clearly the groundlessness for the assertion made by our contemporary that it never reached Auckland. The public will doubtless have long ’ere this discovered that the so-called telegrams and correspondence purporting to come from Auckland are deliberately manufactured in the News office.”

The subject first alluded to above seems to have been unusually annoying to the Mail, for it breaks out in another place with the following choice morsel : “ Amongst the cargo which arrived by the Lalla llookh last night was a wheelbarrow and stone-hammer, kindly sent by the Governor of Mount Eden. We understand that it is intended for the express use of the editor and mining reporter of the News, to practice with alternately, previous to their departure for their Auckland suburban residence, pending the approaching criminal action for defamation of character. The stonehammer is to be used for reducing the primary rook into fragmentary particles for macadamical purposes.” AT lOKOMAIKIRO. The Lalce WahUip Mail says :—“ The new editor of the Brace Herald styles the Otayo Guardian ‘alight comic paper.’ We wonder whether the present editor of the Herald means that the Guardian has become so since he left it or since the introduction of Mr. Tyke on its staff.”

The Bruce Herald has the following : —“ A man was nearly suffocated by walking into a lot of foetid mud at Dunedin the other day. A Mr. Parry, of the Daily Times , fortunately heard his cries, got assistance, and he was rescued. In a spirit of polite journalistic feeling, the Guardian dragged in to its account of this matter the name of Mr. Humphries, sub-editor of the Times, and tried to be funny at his expense, in addition needlessly insulting him when he wrote to explain matters. The Guardian was for many months remarkable for the manner in which it respected the good feeling that exists between fill ‘ professional ’ journalists, and is irrespective of newspaper rivalry. But it is evident that some fellow or another, like the great ‘ Shirk * of Eatansville, is at work, and that we are to have a representative of the class of journal which Dickens has made famous.”