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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5221, 29 January 1885, Page 3

The candid fbibnd is one of the most unpleasant personages with whom suffering humanity has to deal. But, like the bitter tonic and the virulently active rhubard and magnesia, he is wholesome, and so we make a wry face and swallow his medicine. He is only really endurable, however, when he preaches from the depths of hia wisdom, and from sincere interest in our welfare. Nothing else in fact oan excuse his interference. On these grounds we do not feel inclined to look pleasant when the Argus, or, indeed, .any other Australian journal gives forth oracular utterances on any subject connected with New Zealand. The almost total want of interest in all the affairs of this Colony displayed by Australian newspapers, and their generally lamentable ignorance of everything connected with it, are too great to allow them to assume the lofty position of lecturers in ordinary to the New Zealand Government. The startling announcement made in an Australian journal in 1881 that "Mr T. White had been arrested" at Parihaka has not yet faded from our recollection. When writers on the staffs of the Argus and the other great prints feel that New Zealand iB really one of the Australasian group of Colonies, and are in a position to follow, our affairs with intelligent sympathy, and without jealousy or ignorant prejudice, it will be time for them to teach Sir Julius Yogel his duty in the matter of the Telephone Construction Company.