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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1985, 15 May 1875, Page 2

The s.s. Taranaki, which arrived! in the Manukau yesterday morning, did not bring the English mail, as stated in our columns. The mail is on board the Wellington, which left Lyttelton on Thursday, coming north.

As will be seen elsewhere Mr Jno. Cartwrighfc intends to continue his discourse to-morrc/W: and following Sundays in St George's Hall.

We have received Nos. 1 and 2 of a new evening paper, The Echo, published by Messrs Fairfax and Son of the Sydney Morning Herald office. The Echo with its wide columns has quite an ancient appearance.

We have received New Zealand Gazette No. 25, published on the 6th May. Regulations under section 11 of the Steam Navigation Act are published. Quarterly statements of liabilities and assets of various banks doing business in New Zealand; and return of Customs Revenue at the several ports of New Zealand for the quarter ended 30th March, 1875.

We are informed by Mr W. B. Williams, who has just returned from Tairua, via Mercury Bay, that, whatever difficulties may exist in the way of making a road to Tairua byway of Puriri, they are nothing compared to those which would have to be overcome on the East Coast side. Mr Williams went round by the coast to see what inducement there was for opening a store and packing to the diggings, and he says that he was quite disappointed.; The river is shallow, and cannot be utalised to any extent as a way for carrying goods; while the flat is swampy and would require a very large expenditure to make a road, the "present track being already so cut up that it is nearly impassable, and most trying to horses. In fact, Mr Williams considers that any moderate some of money spent in making a road would be thrown away. The track was so bad that he and his companions preferred to return by way of Mercury Bay to facing the route from Tairua over the hills.

The New Zealand Herald has long been in want of an editor —a supervising editor, one who could remember sufficient of what had been said in one day's issue to prevent its being directly contradicted in the next; lately it has been apparent that the Herald is sadly in. want of a reader. Errors of the most glaring kind are being perpetrated in the Herald's columns daily. One day lately a letter from Mr Carleton appeared, and soon thereafter appeared a supplement correcting the errors of the letter. In the supplementary letter " unwieldly " was printed for " unyielding." In the same issue the Superintendent of Nelson was mixed up with Wellington-, or vice versa, it was not very clear which. The Cross pointed out a number of similar errors, the result only of gross carelessness or ignorance. But the Herald is above criticism. Xesterday in a sub-editorial, its readers were informed that the " principal" of Sir George Grey's speech had remained untouched. Will the Herald kindly be more careful; if not it will forfeit (if it ever possessed) the character of being the leading morning journal.