CORRESPONDENCE.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 3572, 26 October 1898, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE PRESS ASSOCIATION AND WALTER GUTHRIE AND COMPANY (IN LIQUIDATION). TO THE EDITOR.

Sib, — It is some months' since Judge Williams directed the liquidator to report to the Court in this estate, and it is common knowledge in, this city that ho lodged his report with ‘Judge Pennefather some weeks since. If that is so, why does the Press Association ijot give a synopsis of tha rep.opt'to the public, in the usual way, through the newspapers of the colony ? I can recall the liquidation of another Southland company, a couple of years since, when the Press Association and newspapers generally were not so reticent. 1 assume it is in this as in other matters —one man may steal a horse but another may not look over a fence. My object in writing to you is in the hope that some member of Parliament may insist on the Press Association doing its duty impartially, or relinquishing its monopoly in favour of some other party or company that will do so.t— l am, fyo', MobaLitv . Dunedip, October §O, 1898, [Our correspondent's .complaint, if well founded, is really direated against the Dnnodiu agents of the Press Association. Wo are-loth to believe that any unjust discrimination has been shown in this matter, but it oannot be forgotten that , the chairman of the Walter Guthrie Company formerly held a high position in Dunedin, and it is certainly remarkable that there should bo snob an inexcusable. delay in sending out thq contentH'6? kh' importaht report.- The delay {would "dodbtlesa have formed tho subject of 1 a question In the House long ago if it had affected a me r,ber of the Government party, for in suoh ease the objections of the Opposition to Parliamentary interference with legal proooedirgs would, of course, not apply.— Ed. Times.] ' ■'

A number of other letters to the Editor appear in our Supplement of to-day,