JOURNALISTIC CONSISTENCY.

Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1730, 20 July 1874, Page 2

JOURNALISTIC CONSISTENCY.

We like consistency, and therefore we want to ask.the editor of the New! Zetland Herald how "he can reconcile-the .widely-different sentiments regardinj^exacrty similar transactipni*.-which appear below, both /of which are from his columns, with the interval of less than a year between the appearance of the two extracts. That our read«ra may understand the matter we may mention that a little over a year .ago an esteemed citizen of the Thames " retired " aom# liabilities which had been incurred years be fora. Hia creditors, in appreciation presented him with a piece of plate. These circumstances called forth the commenda-ti-n of the N. Z. Herald' aa gives in the extract below, date 30th July, 1873. More recently a Sydney firm called their, creditors together and paid them the full amount of their liabilities incurred a.number of years,ago; whereupoi* the gratetul creditors voted and presented >to ..the .honorable debtors a valuable piece 'of plate. Thi* appears. to have excited.the indignation of that editor of the-HeAld, who "'comes out strong'-in the extract of July 18,1874. Mr: Editor ofcthe<He»ld, which are your sentiments—those published in July 1873, or-those in July 1874?— , " * • • . ,!V ■N. Z. Hbrald, July 30, ,W. ,• : N. Z.-HteAMv.XjiJy 18/74 It is -with extreme We cannot quite underpleasure that we insert stand why a man should the subjoined public ac- be presented with a knowledpnent made; by_ j handsome piece] of/plate Mr.'„ Hudson ■to certain *-and <a- testimonial for gentlemen named, for a .doing that which if he had testimonial they have pr&ivnqt" done would have resented him with hi'recog- ~> fleeted disgracefully upon nition of the liquidation, him during hisJife, ( and by Mr. Hudson "of ceK-hummory far ever after. 1 tain old obligations in- Our Australian telegrams curred about twelve years _, inform usihatmay yean ago." Very 'rarely, as- ago Messri. J.C. andO. rarely indeed as the pro- R. Dibbs tof Sydney, verbial ange Is V.visits, wore unable to meet their which are said Go be few pecuniary indebtedness, and far-between, do-we - and, • aa-a-aoMequence, hear of men possessing . their creditors suffered in sufficient honesty of pur- proportion to the extent pose to perform the act of the liabilities, which, for which Mr. Hudson is ■) had beenSncurred. After so justly complimented by a long lapse of time the his date creditors. „ Not mempers, of thisJhrm r»only in admiration should recovered < lUefaMAfl; such a character be held succeeded,' in fact, .beup, but. also as an _ yond^theif expectations, example- to ■ not • a*rfew«" when they 1 'called their who, although in a posl-. .old, creditor* together, tien to go and do like- and- paid all «f them in wise; are not possessed of - Xull their demands.,r<Thi* that sufficient amount of ■ *o our thinking was'no honesty to do so. ,■■ . more, tiian what they (Here follows Mr; Hud«~' ought to' Bare done, and soo's acknowledgment.). ... which, the law.should,, if properly administered, have made it compulsory \ "- -<: , up^nth«mifthey!hadnit>t t . done. However, Insurance companies and oem- .,-;- ■ •' mercial men think the . ctsosuperlafvelymeritoj . . , . v , rious that they.nave re- . 1 ' solved to present the * "' ' ' ' ' "Messrs. Dibbs each with "" U costly piece j>f oate, „ , a bearingsoniitftbl&inaarip* ' ■ ' tion, and a c sumf of-£Mf - ' ' ""• •* •!!!!?&*£?** I»isi*Q!f -'•'■■ ' defray 'the' cost. '*W© , should have been better ' -„,. pleased, at- thferconuner- • ■ .. . :',. i.H. cial me«Hty"-(rf theSykneyites if the recipients 4\ of''&"piece of plate with a suitable superscription' s 7 /" . . < . , . badfrefused^sachiaTeqr doubtful complimenU