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Bnstßoss Notices. *(B7* CANTERBURY WEEKLY PRESS Established 1865. ON reaching the twenty-fifth year of the publication of the first weekly magazine in Canterbury, the Proprietors of the CANTERBURY WEttKLY PR&S3 refer with extreme pleasure to the success which has attended their efforts in the past. Consistent adhesion to the policy that the best and earliest inf ormaaon on every subject, carefully edited, must cause the WifiILKLY PRESS to rank as the LEADING WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IN NEW ZEALAND Has proved the secret of their success, and readers may feel assured tuat no efibrts will wanting in the future to maintain the HIGH STANDARD OF EXCELLENCE Already attained by this most popular journal. The CANTERBURY WEEKLY PRESS is welcomed by all sections of tne community—by tbe business man, the farmer, the miner, and the politician. In busy offices and in mountain huts, in social clubs and hi wayside tents, it is alike eagerly welcomed. The shepherd in the back country and the prospector by some lonely mountain stream are constant readers. Tbe saw miller in the heart of tne bush and tbe shearer in the noisy shed both turn to its pages for that recreation which is afforded by no contemporary. ITS WIDESPREAD POPULARITY Is due to the variety of its contents, both useful and amusing, which are most carefully chosen, and thus meet the requirements of all sorts and conditions of men—and women. The sterling character of the articles in the WEEKLY PREfcS, collated and written by a large staff of contriDutors in both the Old and New Worlas, has placed it in the foremost rank of Colonial journals. THE AGRICULTURAL COLUMNS Are under the care of an expert whose knowledge of his subject is second to that of no one in tne colony, and tue treatment which Agricultural and Pastoral subjects have received at his hands has called forth the highest encomiums from those in a position to judge and has gained the confidence of all practical farmers, therefore upon these topics the WKEKJLiY PKIGSS has long ruled as an authority, and in England and Australia it is always quoted as the recognised authority on New Zealand farming. KIISGS, As racing has been termed, is made a specla feature of the CANTERBURY WEEKLY PRESS. The columns devoted to this subject, dear to tbe hearts of all colonials, are edited by a gentleman who has the advantage of knowing tbe North and South Islands equally well, and readers may, therefore, rely on getting the best and latest information about racing matters in Auckland, Napier, Wauganut Wellington, Canterbury, Weatland and Utago. The staff of Sporting Correspondents possessed by the WEEKLY PRESS is the best of its kind in the colony, and only the most reliable information is published. Favoritism finds no .place in these columns and wiiile no personalities are indulged in, any thing like unfair and unsportsmanlike tactics meet with their due reward, and the WEEKLY PKESS speaks out fearlessly and without respect of persons, be it steward, Starter, judge, jockey or owner. The page devoted to ATHLKTIC SPORTS. May fairly be claimed to be the best of its kind in any paper published south of the Uue, and is regarded as such by all New Zealand Atulete*. Every description of Athletic spots is dealt with, and under its present management this department of tbe CANTERBURY WEEKLY PKKSS eclipses anything which has ever appeared in the colony. THE FOOTBALL, CRICKET, AND ttOWING

Columns are each allotted to experts in these manly sports. With regard to Football the WEEKLY PRhSS has become known to every player in the two islands for its brilliant descriptions of play, the sound advice it has given and the clear explanations of the knotty points which have from time to time arisen in New Zealand and which have been referred to it. The intellectual recreation afforded by CHP.SS AND DRAUGHTS Has not been lost sight of, and the two games under very able editorship, occupy a worthy place in tne paper every week. The Puzzler is another excellently managed column. THE LITERArFdKPARTMENT Of the CANTERBURY WEEKLY PRESS ts another of its strongest points, ana it is in this department that it has perhaps done the greatest amount of good work. It is with sa wfaction that tbe proprietors of the CANTERBURY WEEKLY PRESS can declare that nothing has ever been printed n their paper to which the least objection could be taken on tbe score of impropriety. The high standard of the articles which have been published in tbe WEEKLY PRESS have given it the position of THE BEST FAMILY PAPfiR Published in the colony. Without wishing to cast a slur on any of its contemporaries, several of which have been considerably improved by competition with the ever popular WEEKLY PREdd, it may be said that uo journal issued in New Zealand has done so much to improve the taste of its readers in matters literary as the WEEKLY PRESS has done. Readers of all sons and eizss can always find something amusing and instructive in this department, and can never put down tbe paper without being be iter men, women, or children for what they have read. There are two or features connected with this department to Whicn attention is directed. In the first place, the Serial Hovels which from time to time have appeared in the WEEKLY PRKaS have always been ABSOLUTELY NEW to the people of the colony. No novel which can already be obtained at any bookseller's in a cheap Australian edition is published. The novels wnich appear in the Whin&LY PRESS appear at tbe same time in some of the best English weekly papers, and until they have run their course in these papers they do not appear in book form. The serials, it may be added, are all by English novelists of the first rank. Another feature is one in which the WEEKLY PRESS stands alone. Instead of completely filling tne paper with a collection of articles reprinted from English, American, and Australian papers the Editor has gradually urrounded himswif with a STAFF OF LITERARY CONTRIBUTORS, whose names have become household words from the Tnree Kings to Stewart Island, and from one coast to the other. Mo otherjuper published in the colony has such a staff, and tne management of the WEEKLY PREdS take credit for the acumen with wnich it has been selected and the encouragement which has been extended to really gifted and capable writers. All departments of literature re represented in this gathering, and the excellence of the contributed stories, verses, essays, and sketches which have helped to make the WEEKLY PRESS the MOST POPULAR WEEKLY PAPER in New Zealand is recognised all over the colony. it is with feelings of pleasure and pride that the proprietors of the WEEKLY PRESS draw the attention of their large circle of readers to the success which has attended the efforts of some of their contributions in wider fields than this colony offers. "M. C. V." has had her charming verses p inted in " Longman's" and other magazines, and essays by the same talented lady have appeared in the " Atlantic Monthly," one of the beat literary American magazines. Fresh and graphic articles by " Tne Warrigal" appeared in twelve consecutive issues of the widely-circulated Melbourne "Leader," and " The Field," the recognised English authority on sport, has also printed several clever sketches of New Zealano sport from the same facile pen. " AustraL" some of whose verses were recently printed by the critical London weekly, the '•Spectator,' has been a frequent contributor of prose and poetry to tbe columns of the WEEKLY PRESS; and Scott Webster's masterly novel. "Lowes." which recently appeared in this journal, has drawn high praise from competent authorities on English Action. Several other contributors have also had articles accepted by the chief Australian weekly jwpera. "Si. Mr wno writes specially for the WEEKLY PRESS the cleverest pen-pictures of modern Paris ever published in any journal, is an occasional contributor to the ••Spectator "and other hignclasa English journals. THE WEEKLY PRESS Is the newspaper which provides for the re quiremeats of persons engaged in the world's markets, The COMMERCIAL INFORMATION Contained in THS CANTERBURY WEEKLY PRESS haa earned a deserved reputation for reliability, and constituted pre-eminently a standard for reference. By a kindly co-operm-tfam and support from the public which tbe SoprletOrs ofTHECANTBRBURy WEEKLY PBBSS hereby acknowledge in grateful terms THE PEOPLE'S PAPER, By its ever increasing circulation among farmers, stock owners, commercial men, persona engaged in trade, private families, and through sea-going vessels, railway and coach dnes. reaching every office or fireside in the townships of Its circuit, renders THS CANTERBURY WSIKLY" PKBSS tho <necom—te best vehicla