THE WELLINGTON PRESS AND THE WANGANUI HERALD.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 11129, 15 February 1886, Page 2

THE WELLINGTON PRESS AND THE WANGANUI HERALD.

4» The Wanganui Herald is constantly ! pegging away at this paper about some* thing or other, but as it generally adopts the wretcherl practice of assailing one of the proprietors personally, instead of dealing with the subject in question from the public poiut of view, we never take any notice of its attacks. Life fs Qot long enough to waato time tjpon ' mud^slinging like that. We are always ready for a fair snd square discussion, but we must decline to enter a squabble about private persona who happen to be connected with this or any other paper. j?he Wanganui Harald should take this hint, and drop the Pott and olurk style of journalism. The public don't like it, and it is a nuisance every way. We are aorry to see, too, that even when it omits to attack persona in our oUica, our contemporary caunot be reason^ ably just or candid. In n leading artic'e on the Waitotara -.seat a few days ago, it made a curiously distempered allusion to us. Having mentioned that a candidate had aunounced himself for Waitotara, it said, " The Wellington Evening Press seeks to connect this fact with Mr Ballanoe's name in a way to cast a nasfcy slur on the present Native Minister's reputatiou." How that is just the opposite of the fact. All that we did was this : In tv gossiping column, where obviously nothing is to be taken ecu grand scn'eux, a suggestion which has been common talk was alluded to, namely, that Mr Ballance's anxiety for an iinuitsdiate dissolution had been prompted in part by a desira to get Mr Biryce out of his Waitotara aeat and out of tha House, while en* gaged in his libel suit in London, But in the very Bame place where this ailusion occurred , and folio wiug it in the next line, the writer expressed an unqualified opinion that the Guggestion was a mistaken one, and that- Mr Ballance was not promptod by any such unworthy motive as that attributed to him. It must surely be a strangely jaundiced mind which cm sea in that "a nasty slur outte N*tiva Miuistor'a Qputfttion." — Wellington J? reaa.