DISREPUTABLE JOURNALISM.

Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 174, 19 November 1881, Page 2

DISREPUTABLE JOURNALISM.

TO THE EDITOB. ; SlB, — As our local paper th6 i G ! uardian perhaps rightly, refuses to notice the tffasions of the Falnierston- Standard] m any way, and prefers- to- treat MivM'Minß; with silent contempt, I have U> : to a\lc you to do me the favor of inserting: .fb*ii letter. A virulent attack upon the Feil<» ing Sports appears m two paragraphs of the Standard issue of the , 16th instant, kfiinu&ting, firstly, that there are dissensions m the Feilding Sports Cpmraitt^e, and secondly, that the Peildmg BoxDf Day Sporti, for that ressob t will not ?rov< as sueecssfitl as m former yearf. erhtfg tbii vixulenct »ad juaJeToliDM

will be sufficiently explained to tht know rag ones, when I mention that the Com* mittee decided withoot « dissentient voice not to advertise m the StavMard— a paper that has shown no goodwill to Feilding— but to publish m the Times and its supplement the Chronicle the Ml programme, recognising the superior Talni of these latter papers as an advertising medium, and knowing by the experience of former years, that the fullest publicity would be given to their notices. I have Uttended_ every meeting of the Sfprt* Committee, and every member of it will bearTroe out when I say that the utmost .unanimity and harmony has prevailed at our meetings, and T if these i qualities are all that is necessary to make our sports a success, there need be no fear of toe result. We have a good subscviption list, a splt-ndkl ground, And a liberal programme, and I for one have co doubt but that with fine weather, we shall keep up the old reputation of the Feilding Sports. As for their falliu^ tbroogfr, that contingency only exists m •*. the wish' that is father to tte thought " of the editor of the Sttm&ird.—l jam, &C- --, Hon., Sec. Feilding Sports Committee. .fWedid notTead the articTe towhicb I Mr.' Shcrwill alludes, but we heard members of the Racing Committee condemn it m the strongest terms, and declare thej had ho sympathy whatever with it-— Ed.M.TJ -