"THE WEEKLY PRESS."

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 10616, 28 March 1900, Page 5

"THE WEEKLY PRESS."

The •"iVecluy i*re.-.»," published th— morning, wiii rank as one ot the best War and pi'it-T* v,j.i'.ii ]u4 ever appeared iv the -woollies. The pjctuies •A tii* I'orou.-y "..'.imp of tho Fount) ConUJiiiii*-, -nd give an excellent idut of tin* unicu our men get a* a. preparation I'-*' t-'t* l work in tlie trami\j».. i!'« y:*i.tJi».T ■oi troopers are anotijer teat 111*9 wmea mii* journal has made a hpeuiaiity, .iiici th'.isa oi 111 tubers of the Couui.^cam'»i» quit** up to the usuai torm. iJit cepu:iut\»uf the i-'otirtii Contingent from i'ti.-t. c'haiujtJSft. -u—upi— four pages, and —o«» in detail the m.iii; doings oi tha day. Iv ouimei'ti*.ll wh;i t.i.s Inure are seme picture* which nt-wl hpeual mention. These aro the gi'i'ip o: otri—is, with the Kight Hon. til l -; l'luriicr, Mid the- —Ties of vi'.ws ihovving the departure of the vessel from the wharf, wl.ioh an all unique. The "Weekly I'ri-s.V special correspondent with the Kojjh Hides s ..a bo.ird tlie Kilight Templar pri>v:i.k:• a series of pictures which give v, vtry uir id.v of tho incidents of the voyage to .A.ltany, and axe interesting as illustrating the nature of tliffl duties which "our boys'" havo to perform at tea. As Mifeking is t!,o centre of uttraction just now, by reason of th.) iplendid defence by Colonel BadenPowell, tho "Weekly Press" has devoted space to four pic tui en" of the town, and incidents in the siege. A number of inag-j'li.-cnt war pictures —ir.w tha New Z—landers at tho front, and many people will brj able to recognise, those they know in the First Contingent. Mor« pacific subjects treated aro laying tho foundation, rtone of the Agricultural end Industrial Hail, some pictures of Mi—* Mendelsohn's wedding at Dunedin, the Melb:/urno and New Zealand cricket tflimti, which took pirt in the recent match at Chmt.-'iu— h. In th« literary columns the articles ore equally up-to-date with the illustrations, notublv a magnificent account of the siege of Mafeking, written from tho inside, in whifli the writer tells the story graplika 11 v. This is the first account of the siov-o which ha« appeared, and tells the story of the first month of the siege, and as thero is a plan of Mafeking among the iliusfjnitions the interest in the account is increased.