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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 933, 25 October 1879, Page 2

Those newspaper editors who are too obstinate to retract any unjust or improper language which they have admitted to their columns, shoald remember this :— "lf any subscriber find a line in his paper that he does not like and cannot agree with, if he will bring it to the office and point out the offending line the editor will take his scissors and cut it out for him." A great many stories are current about objections taken by the Comptroller, Mr Fitzgerald, to accounts sent in by the Native Department. One account was for some ploughing done, and Mr Fitzgerald minuted it, "Disallowed. Te Whiti would have dono it for no tiling. " Princess Louise has sent nine of the salmon she caught, packed in ice to England ; one of them to the Que«n, her mother, one to the Prince of Wales, one each to the Dukes of Edinburgh and Conn aught and Prince Christian, and the others to Lady Sheffield, Lady Mitford, the Hon. Mrs M'Namara, and Mrs Ralli.