AN UNFOUNDED STATEMENT

Wellington Independent, Volume XVII, Issue 1776, 7 October 1862, Page 3

AN UNFOUNDED STATEMENT

The Otago Daily Times of 24th September, has the following paragraph relative to our veracious coutemporary the Advertiser.

The Wellington Advertiser of the 18th, in a paragraph respecting the return of many of the Wellingtonians who had joined the first rush to the Dunstan, indulges in some very unfounded charges against the Otago papers. Our Wellington contemporary insinuates that the reports of the new gold fields which have appeared in the columns of the Dunedin newspapers have been garbled for purposes of self-interest. It appears, that many of those who have returned to Wellington, having, have given somewhat doleful accounts of the Dunstan diggings ; but it is very probable, that most of these •'croakers" never got beyond Dunedin, and having kicked their heels together at various street corners for a few days, had taken the first steamer back to their dull and dusty town.

Subsequent intelligence received from the Soath has satisfactorily shown, that the Advertisers charge against its southern contemporaries was totally unfounded, and we have a faint recollection, that about the same time that the statement in question was made, our local contemporary " came to grief " relative to a false occusation it had made, about a case of " Literary Piracy " from its columns. On that occasion, the editor was helped out of his difficulty by one of the small fry ot the journal, who jumped into the breach, and sustained in his own persoa the disgrace of an exposure, which would otherwise have fallen on the journal itself, by stating, that he" had the honor to be" the party who had supplied his " alter ego " the Editor with the information on which the paragraph was founded. Perhaps this convenient literary stop gap, will on the present occasion again come to the rescue, and in another long winded epistle — state with a charming candour, that he also supplied the information, by the use of which, our contemporary has once more got iuto a fix . ?