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Business gotlcea. CANTERBURY WEEKLY PRESS Established 1865. f\S reaching the twenty-fifth year of the \J publication of the flrst weekly majgane in Canterbury, the Proprietors of the CANTJSRtJURtf WKBaCLT PKriss refer with extreme pleasure to tbe sueoes whiuti has atwndea their efforts in the pant. Consistent adhesion to the policy that the best and earliest inlorma«iou on every subject, carefully edited, must cause the WtfUKLY PRKsS to rank as the LEADING WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IN NEW ZEALAND Has proved the secret of their succeis, and readers may feel assured tuat no effurta will wanting in the future to maintain tne HIGH STANDARD OF EXCELLENCE Already attained by this most popular journal. Ihe CANTERBURY WEEKLY PRESS is welcomed by ail 3ection3 of tne community—by the business man, the farmer, the miner, and tne politician. In bu»y offices and in mountain huts, in social cluoa aud in wayside tente, it is alike eagoriy welcomed. The shepherd in the back couutry ana tne prospector ay some lonely mountain otream are constant read rs. Tne saw iniiler iv the Heart of lue bush and the shearer iv the noisy shed both turn to its page* for that rccreutiou which is afforded Dy no contemporary. i ITS WIDESPREAD POPULARITY Is due tn the variety of its contents, both useful and amusing, which are mosi> carefully chosen, and thus inctt tne requirements of all sons and conditions of men—aud women. The sterling character of the articles in the \\'KH,Kli\ PKiisS, collated and written by a large stair of contrioutors in both the Old and New Worlds, has placed it in the foremost rank of colonial journals.

THB AGRICULTURAL COLUMNS Are under the care ot an expert whose knowledge of his subject is second u> that uf no one iv tne colony, aud tne treatment wfticn Agricultural anu .Paotoraiouujects have received at his lianas lias called tno higiiest encomiums from thoae in a position to judge and hue gained tue ot all practical fai-met-s, therefore upon these topics tiie WEiiKljY PitKSd bus lung ruleu as an authority, and iv EuKlaud and Australia, it is always quoted -a the recognised authority on New Harming.

THH. SPoll UF KU\GB, As racing has been termed, is made a specia feature of tue GANTiiKfcUJKif v\ VKU.SJS. XUe columns Uevote .to this suojoct, dear to the hearts of all colonials, arc edited uy a geiiLiemuu who lias the advanuigo of knowim: tuuiSortaand boiuu islands cq.ially Wo-iJ, and readers u\a.y, ihereloro, rely on getting the i>est and latest information about utciug matters in Auckiana, Napicv, VVanuauuL VS'eliiugtou, Oauteruury, otugo Iho β-alf or Spoi'viiig Oorrespoudcnts oy tuts WcaiiL.i is tne ueot uf its kind in the colony, *<nd ■ nly ihu nice! reiutiilc information id published. Favoritism finds no place in these columns ana w. i/c no pot soua.itie? are indulged iv, auy Liiiuß iiKC u.Uiiir aud uuspjitdiunulike tactics moot with tnetr due reward and iho WKlUiLi.' PitcSd epe*ko out fcarles ly and witiioUu of persons, be it steward, starter, jockuy or owa-.-r. The page devoted to . ATHLKiMU SPORTS. M-y fairly be claimed .to be the best or its kind in uny paper published south ot the liiie, and U regurded ad sucii oy all New Zw»laiiu At le:es. Every d- senpeiou ot Attiletic spo La is uualt with, ana under its Dreociiu m.iuageiueni ti.ii dopititmeut of i.he CAN-TERi-IUUV WKEKiiY l-*itiT.ad t;clip3ee a;iyruing "«vhicU has ever appeared in tuecoluuy.

tub; tfuoißAi/L, URiuKisr. AND IIoWiNG Columns are each allotted to experts in these mauly sports. Wirh lejjard to lootball the W-.EKLY PUnSS haa become kuosvn to every play;;r in the two ißluua-> lor ita bdilianc description c of play, tne sound udvicc i. hxs given aud the cluai explauatious of the kn.kty puiaCd which have f ruui nuia to time ari»ua in .New Zealand and whicn have beci reterrftd cv iv The intellectual recreation afforded by Ctl- SS AWI) UtVAUGHiS Has not been lost sight of, and the two games under very able euitoraiup, occuyy a woi-Uiy place iv tuo paper every week. iUe Puzzler is another excellently managed cuiuinn. TilK MIKIUKV; DKPARI'MKNT Of the CANTKUBUKY WIiEKLV PKKdd is uuothor uf i'.n pound, anu ie i* in iuib utpartuienD that it bus perhaps douo mc KreaieaC uin >uut oi good wonc., It is With aa lßtacliou thiit ih.j urupri.-tors ot tai) OAKTICUiIcHy FUKS6 can declare that nothing has ever beeu priatea n thmr to whicn t'lo least uojuociou couid Jβ tauen on tne score of impropriety.. The high sLundard ot the which have beuu pubUßlud iv tue VVJKBIiL.Y PKKSS nave given it the position of THK £>st Family fapkr Published in the colony. Without wishiug to case a slur on any of ita ' coutempu.aries. several oi wJiicii have ueeu < anaid-i-aoiy improveu by cviupd.ikion with the ever popular tt'ISKKLiY FltEid, it, may oe said that uo journal usued iv x\ew Zealand bee douo so much to improve ih« ia.-ite of its readers in niauerd liteiaiT as the Wk&ILLY PRftSS has done. Koaderd of all sor s aud siz » can always find aoiuetUirnj amusing aud iiißtrucuve iv this dt-punuituu und can uover put down tiie paper without being better.men, women, or children f >v what they navo read. There are two or three special leuturci* conni cted with this department to wuicu attention U diiected. In the nrat p.aoe, tho Serial Novels which from time to time h.ive appeared in the Wi£KKL.Y PiiJfiasi have always twen ABSOLJTELY NBW to the people of tbe colony. No novel which, can already no obtained at any in a ch&tp Australian edition ia puolisncd. Tne novels wnich appear iv the WautKLY appear ai tiie same Ume iv some vi the bdsc Kngliah weeuiy papers, aud until they Have run cneir course in tueae papers, they ao not appear in b.ok form. The serials, it may be added, are all by Knglish novelists of the nrsc rank. Another feature ia one in which the WEEKLY. PHKSS stands alone. Instead uf completely tilling the pape* with a collection, of articles reprinted from English, American, and Australian papers the Editor has gradually unbounded himself with a STAFF OF LITKRARY CONTRIBUTORS, whose names have become household words from the Turee Kings to Stewart Island, and from one coast to the oihar. No other p-per pubiUheu in the colony U*j such a staff, and tue management of this WEEKLY PHUioiS take credit for the acumen with wuioh it lias been selected and the encouragement which has been extended to really gifted and capaoie writers. ~...-- --ah 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 id recognised all over the "xtiTwtth feelings of pleasure and pride that the proprietors of the WSEKLY PRICSS draw the attention of their large circle of readers to the success which has attended the efloitsof some of their contributions in wider fields than this colony otters. "M. C V." has had her cnaruiing v«rses p inted in " Longman's" and other magazines, and essay* oy the tame talented lady have appeared, in the "Atlantic Monthly."one of the best literary American magazines. Freeh and grophie article* by '* Tue Warrijcal" appeared in twelve consecutive issues of the widely-ci culated Melbourne *'iieader," and " The JJleld," the reeog-nii-ed English authority oa sport, h/ts alsp printed several clever sketches of New Zealano Hport from the same facile pen. " Anstr&l." j some of whose verses were recently printed by ihecriiical London weekly, Che "Spectator, has been a frequent contributor of prose ao i poetry to the culumas of the PKE3S: and Scott Wobeter's masterly noVoL " Lowes." which recent y appeared ia this journal, has drawn high praise rrom competent authorities on Kngtiah acUon. Severe'i other contributors have ai»o had articles by the chief Austi aliaa weekly papers •• M. m * vtxo writea specially tor. the WeeKV. V PHESS the cleverest pen-pictures of moderr. P&ridever published in any journal, is an cabeioaal contributor to the - Spectator - and other hizhclass English jonmals. THE WEEKLY PRESS Is the newspaper which provides for the re Quirementfi of persona engaged, in the world's I markets. The COMMKRCIAL INFORMATION Contained in THE CANTERBURY WEEKLY has earned a deserved repntation for reliability, »nd constituted pre-eminently a etand&rd for reference. By a Wedly co-opera-tion and support from the public which the Sopriewrs WjsEJCLY PRESS hereby acknowledge in grateful terms THfc Ph.UPLK'S PAPER, By IU ever increasing; circulation among fanners, stock owners, commercial men, person* engaged in trade, private families, and thf&gh sea-ffoi&g vessels, railway and coach tine*, reaching every office or fireside in the town hips of ite .ircuit, renders THE CANTERBURY WEEKLY PKESS *-> wfe