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Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3103, 20 January 1871, Page 2

Our contemporary the " Evening Post I ', has the following : — " The stoppages by the Bank of advances to the Treasury is also a serious and embarrassing business, and if the difficulty is not got over it is bard to see how the Government of the country can be carried on." We beg authoritatively to contradict this absurd and malicious rumor. The Government of the country know nothing of such a serious and embarrassing business," or of any difficulty to be " got over," Yes, there is one difficulty which presses for a solution. It is what to do with telegraphists and journalists who circulate any rumor, however absurd, provided it has a tendency to destroy the credit or disturb the peace of the colony. These must be sadly de6cient either in "intellect" or " honesty" or " brains." The telegram copied by the "Post" from the " New Zealand Herald's" Waikato correspondent, although flatly contradicted by another we published from Greville's agent, Auckland, seems to have excited some alarm. We are enabled, to state that a telegram was received yesterday from the Hon. the Native Minister at Tauranga, to the effect that he believes it to be without foundation. The malicious insinuation that we suppressed any telegrams on this or any other subject, as being unfavorable to our political views, is worthy of the journal in which it appears. The telegrams we publish are supplied simultaneously to other papers in the colony, and to leave one out would be easily detected by all the papers connected with the Reuter's agency. While on this subject we may print the circular that guides both ourselves and our contemporaries : — We cannot too strongly urge upon the attention of our various agents the absolute necessity of carefully eliminating anything like political coloring from Press Telegrams. Greville's Telegraphic Agency embodies in itself all the essentials of a bona Qdo Press Association, seeing that it is based on a partly co-operative system, in order to seoure economy, and it combines amongst its subscribers newspapers of different shades of political opinion. The rival agency has already split upon a rock : their agents having used their power for the dissemination of strong political

opinions, which must be distasteful to many of the subscribing journals. We desire our agents to be warned in time) and to abstain from the expression of any political opinions whatever, recording only plain facts.— We are &o,— Q-ebville's Tblbgbam Company. The manager of the Press Association is, as our readers know, being tried criminally in Dunedin, and it would well become our contemporary to take warning by his fate. He has been guilty of libelling us as receivers of stolen telegrams knowing them to be stolen, and the comparatively mild charge of suppressing telegrams unfavorable to our views falls comparatively flat. We would recommend him, however, to be careful lest he go a stop too far. If forced again to refer to this subject, we shall not follow the tactics of the " Post, " viz., threaten a prosecution, and under cover of this empty threat try to deceive for a time the press and the colony. We mean what we say.