"LET THE GALLED JADE WINCE."

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 841, 22 July 1879, Page 2

"LET THE GALLED JADE WINCE."

[To the Editor itfVu BSSSIu. ] Sib, —I am somewhat at a loss for an adequate motive for the leader about the .P.B. Publishing Co., whioh appeared in the Standard this morning. It seemß to me entirely out of place. Clearly, noue but shareholders have a right to publicly cavil at, or write against, the statement of the accounts of the company. Again, the proper time and place was when the accounts were laid before the Company ; then and there Mr "Subscriber" and perhaps shareholder, or his agent the editor of the Standard, should have stood forth and said his say, or forever held his peace. Nothing is easier than to lind fault, but really what business is it of the Standardi The Shareholders were quite satisfied. The Chairman duly passed the accounts, arid now, forsooth, the Standard jumps up and puts in his oar. The shareholders are now quite able to take care of themselves, and who probably won't ask any assistance in that respect from the Standard. Takins? the little sub-leader of today's StartdardjjwfyYL the subject under notice, I thitiK perhaps the true motive, i.e. malevolence^Jnay be discovered. Could the Stfrndftrtfijitiuugh I admit, lam glad to Bay, it is no business of »mine, <sKo<w an 6qXially satisfactory balance Bheet for the same period 1 1 should strongly recomm'eiid the editor ofjfche Standard to turn, ,his attention homeward. If accountable true he will have Ms hSifds full, afftd bjsjlabor would probably be better appreciated. — I am, •fee, A Shareholder who minds his own Business.

[To the Editor of the. Hkkald.] Sir, — It is very distressing to observe the effect any appearance of prosperity, or improvement in position, in the affairs of the P. B. Printing and Publishing Company, has upon the Editor and " Proprietor " of the Standard. The proverbial result of the exhibition of a red rag to a bull is nothing to that produced by the unmistakeableprosperity of the "Herald" to Mr. Webb. At the same time I can make every allowance, under the circumstances, for an individual of Mr. Webb's well-known nervous and excitable temperament. Your paper has undoubtedly done double the business during the last half-year that it did in the previous one, and that in the face of the commercial depression, then and now existing,. ,It is, therefore, obvious that a great part, if no* the whole of the additional business done by you, must have been so much drawn away from the resources of the Standard. I think, therefore, you should take very little notice of a slight ebullition of . temper on the part of a man who stands in the position of a mariner whose vessel has stranded upon the shore, and who, with longing eyes, sees the receding tide, steadily going back from him, leaving him high and very, very, dry upon the rocks, forgive him, Sir. — I am, &0., Subscriber and Shareholder.