Robbing the Telegraph Revenue.

In April of this year free telegrams were sent containing about 5000 words each, to several strongly partizan Government newspapers. These telegrams contained nearly verbatim reports of the Premier's Pahiatua speech in reply to Mr Massey. Most newspapers in the colony received their reports of this meeting through the Press Association and paid the usual newspaper rates for such telegrams. And we urge that the partizan newspapers (amongst which were the "Lyttelton Times," "Evening Star" and "Oamaru Mail") to whom the lengthy wires referred to were sent, have no right to use the telegraph system of this colony without paying for such use, not even if their opportunity to defraud the page 30 revenue is due to the Premier's abuse of his Ministerial position.