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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2064, 16 August 1875, Page 2

The s.s. Omeo arrived at the Bluff at 2 p.m. on the 13th (Friday)—so we're informed by telegram published to-day. At noon on Saturday, or 22 hours after such arrival, the cablegrams were "presented for transmission," as the phrase goes, to the subscribers of the Press Agency, and five hours after that time we received the first slip of the message, when the issue of the Star was nearly all delivered. In the first place we would like to know what detained the Omeo's news from two o'clock on the 13th instant to noon of the 14th, and what further obstruction impeded its transmission so that it took five hoursin reaching us by v process which is supposed to be as [quick as lightuing.

It appears to us that the Telegraph Department and the Press Agency want reorganising, for whenever there is the slightest pressure of work neither is found equal to the emergency. For an ordinary message to take five hours in transmission from one place in New. Zealand to another place in the colony by the electric telegraph seems to us a burlesque. The lines must be imperfect, or the operators incompetent—perhaps both. We had a sample of the latter in the message referred to; and as repeated remonstrances have failed to get any redress, we shall have to revenge ourselves on the department by publishing a few messages. as received, with all their orthographical beauties intact.