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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4884, 16 November 1876, Page 4

Like the bird over, the insurance offices, the Wellington correspondent of the Otago Baily Times every now ; and again rises from the ashes of former falsehood,,and,, on pinions of revived mendacity; soars into a very .empyrean of untruth. It is but bare justice to him to say that his last Phoenix-like ascent excels the results of all former .resuscitations. In a letter to the Otago Baily Times, under date Wellington, November; the 2nd, he draws upon his undoubted powers to such an extent that the falsehoods - literally jostle each other through more than a column of. small type. He begins by emulating the proverbial bird, and fouls' his own nest by making a statement regarding Wellington, which serves the Baily Times for a text whereon to write a leader against this city being the seat of Government. Next he states that the Ministry has but a half-dozen followers, and there never was a Ministry , which collectively was, more unpopular amongst its,! supporters than the present one. Having then for ! a considerable space told an untruth in reference to every possible subject or incident connected with the close of the session, he winds up by puffing a series of ill-written blackguard articles, emanating from a source which made ,them as inaccessible to criticism as pitch is to the linger, and which saw the light of publication so meanly and so obscurely that they have hot been, noticed by a respectable journal in the colony. ,