A BRAY FROM ONE OF THE DONKEYS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 30, 17 June 1868, Page 3

A BRAY FROM ONE OF THE DONKEYS.

TO TICK UDITOR OF THE STAR. Sin — I won rather shocked yesterday nt the lending nrticloin tlio Press, evidently intended no ft Bcvero hit at your poor little self. Now all this flourish of trumpets about lowering the characters of the papers, &c, comes with a very bad grace from your tnj'iocakly native frlond, bcoauso if reports nro to bo believed, It contemplated, another transformation into tho humbfo penny one U«olf, hut taking too long to consider, in tho meantime tho planetoid put In an appearance, nnd completely nettled that quoition [ although I nm not qulto sure yot whothor your extensive fri«M will not moro readily succumb to the " penny ovenlng," than It did to tho trl-we«kly. Your contemporary should bear in mind, (lint it was tho first journal in Canterbury that forced on the pcoplo thli kind of hotliouso luxury of n daily paper ; wo wero perfectly satisfied with our trl-wooklles j and. with our population, a daily p.iper would have been In ho<u<mi at about tho sumo time as tho Cathedral 1b finished— tlmt te, I should say, in about ten years timo. (By the bye, what has become of tho resident architect ?) With regard to tho character of tho writJng in tho dally papers, herein lies tho rub. T maintain, with many others of my station, that It l« of to;) high a character for tin masses. A person would need a sound political education to understand one half of the artictost and to be continually doied with native now/) is an infliction only equal to Maori letters, " thcroforo tho cheap evening paper is very good, No. 1 Japan j" it steps in u ml fills up a want, nnd supplies all clones with flomotlilng roadablo and instructive nnd docs not put them to sleep from shoor exhaustion In trying to wado through some dreary account of a runnnga, or some equally cheering affair^ with tho Ngnttnuintita, 7* Your obodient Yorvant, NEDDY. I\S,— -Excuse blots, na it was ratlior wot last night, oven for a long-oared ono to bo out in.