GARBLED REPORTING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 254, 2 September 1879, Page 2

GARBLED REPORTING.

To the Editor of the "WAHUJtArA Daily. i Grey town September 1. Sin, —Reading Mr Capo Williamson's moat impertinent letter in the ' Standard' in answer to j tho fstatcmonb made by M** Pharazyn that the report in that paper of his speech at Carterton was a. " simple caricature" of what lie said,'l have thought it -worth while to correct the said report, partly from memory, and partly by comparison with the one which appeared in tho Daily, which I understood from Mr Pharaayn to be a very fair on®. I give the results on the moat important points in parallel columns, so that th® readers of both papers may see that tha assertion made by Mr Pharazyn is mora than justified." I may ataie, without fear of contradiction that the entirely untrue reports of all the proceedings at Mr Pharazyn's meetings in the ' Standard, 1 as compared with the truthful ones in your columns, has so disgusted many of the readers of tho former that you have only to establish aa active agency here to run your rival out of the field. The sentences in italics are pure inventions on the part of the reporter, ana must probably have been taken from some hazy recollections of the speeches of other candidates i

SrANDARi) Report. I By this I iiiean that on this elect ion depends the/ate of the Great Liberal Policy promulgated by Sir G. Grey. I should t irn them out and I should have voted the XtkiuHon Ministry oiit too if they had made the same blunders as the Grey one h as. The Government is not responsible in toto for the present financial crisiia. This vms bayim before they came into office This crisis Has caused and in turn l.auscd by the withdrawal of capital from the Colony by capitalists at home i The sum of twenty thousand was being sent out, tiiß draft ■was filled jin, -when the capitalist declined to forward jit, alleging as his reason that he had been reading the speeches of Sir George, and he would decline to send money to a country in sttch a financial state as New Zealand was in.

Corrections. This is absolutely false; he said distinctly, "The -whole question was administration, not principles . Probably have voted. The effect of Sir George Grey's statement is being ehowfl, by the fear capitalists# begin to feel in trust-f ing us with their money. £IOO,OOO t where such things : were being said by | the Premier. -

Sir George Grey evengoing go far as to saj' in the House that he could show that by his scliemcof retrench meat two or three hundred t h o ti s a nd pounds could be vlade They say that the revenue of the colony has been increased by £190,000 according to the Governor's speech

One hundred thousand Could be saved in half an hour. He added " 'Hub was not tine, as it mainly consisted o£ gross railway earnings." This paragraph is simply incoraprohon«ible; tlio reporter has mixed up revenue and land fund in a moat wonderful way, certainly never fitated by fcho speaker.

They atutis that the revt'nnvfrom the, railway* is £(l{i0)000, « ri're.iwe. which not only KwcU the. <:otit- of t/w.ir mainfrmunx'l but. aUu a in rye portion of (he hdc.fvkt on tlw rout of their' construe/'on. Thin, I find, on ftoinff into the. mbjr.ct >i vu'oitf/, tht revenue is Only t/)ir jbllj\'h of what they iwy, and instead of >k<:re hc.inrf tin inrrea.w i« Ow revenue <f the. colony, I venture to am'rt if 1 ere in a ilrfwirnaj of six or ween knndrvd thouwind pound*. Allowing thoso mea who have money to lond to charge 12 and 15 per ccntj for it, and by this making more money while the working man gets worm, and this I attribute to the wretched inconvenience, &c.

I found th&t by the repeal of the duties on the necessaries oi life / r.au nai'p, £7 per annum, which a (p-cat th'.al more than covers my land fax \

The repeal of this tax was the means of saving some thousands of pounds yearly to thf. firm theprinripo.l part, of loAich ijncH into Mr&arnachs porJceX. Are there ijofc mills all over tho Colony almost at a standstill icilJinfj t,o foie almost mn/ prim/or the, timhr,r ?

They took trumpery auina oif the necf*fmriua of life, and then deliberately Repealed the duty on Stimber, mnottn/inff lo\ a very large aum in tt\c-course i/ tht year. \

loss incoirfS^jj^ I have saved £7 for the year in excess of what my land tax will come to when I pay it.

f Mr Larnach's 4 and the* worlcmen out of employment in consequence.

I am, &0., . AN SS&Pcam.