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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 689, 7 May 1879, Page 2

The Wellington aucj, (canterbury newspapers are crowing btrer the affair of the Stadt Haarlem having found it impossible to get into Port Chalmers. The Wellington Post has the following: — "We deeply sympathise with Dunedin. After successfully manoeuvring to get the new pioneer Bteamsbip of the new line sent direct to^Porfc Chalmers, it must have been mortifying indeed to the Dunedin people to have the Stadt Haarlem come actually to the very entrance of their harbor and then be obliged, after waiting a couple of days, to pass them by and go on to a rival port, .because theirs was practically inacessible. The fact that the Stadt Haarlem has had to proceed to Lyttelton and to send on >Dunedin passengers by rail to their destination, is a significant one. It is an unmistakable declaration to the whole world ihat Dunedin has no safe harbor for large vessels, and that for ships of more than medium tonnage Lyttelton must be considered the real port, to Dunedin, now that access thither from that harbor by rail is so easy. Such a result of all their* scUemjngr must be a bitter disappointment to our Dunedin friendß, and we can assure them that they have our heartfelt sympathy m their great affliction. At the same time, it is satisfactory m the interests of the colony at large, that the ridioulons whim of making Port Chalmers a port of call for steamers of the Stadt Haarlem's size has had its absurdity fully exposed dy the irrefutable logic of facts. The Port Chalmers bubble has burnt." Mr. James Mackay autorises the denial of the statement made m a Country paper that he received £1300 for reporting on the Waimate plains difficulty. He is not m the service of the Government, and went to Parihaka without any stipulation as to payment.