EMPIRE NEWS.
A COUMPAV SUPPLEMENT IN LONDON. "STANDARD" AS MEDIUM. SUBSIDIES' FIIOM AUSTRALIA AND '• CANADA. by iELEonApn-,-rnESB association— cop Yniani, (Rec. May 8, 9.25 p.m.) London, May 8. Tho " Standard " announces the issue of a weekly supploment, entitled " The Standard of the Empire,", to be distributor gratis with Thursday's issue of the " Standard," containing cable and other news'of all sorts from the colonies,and contributions by tho Agents-General and by special writers. It is' not Etatcd, but it is correct' to say, that tho " Standard " receives a heavy subvention from Canada, and a smaller subvention'from the Commonwealth'. 1 < This is considered a most unusual circumstance in English journalism. WHAT THE.. DOMINION WILL DO. ' Last month tho.Prime .Minister of New Zealand announced that the,; Government had effected' an arrangement with the Eeuter Company to dispatch three times per week from tho Dominion a hundred-word message containing' general news which would prove of interest. to newspaper readers at Home. The Premier intimated that this news would bo sent to those of the leading ■. English papers who would. publish it. Nothing has been announced of ' any • subvention to -any special paper. " / .
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 193, 9 May 1908, Page 5
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187EMPIRE NEWS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 193, 9 May 1908, Page 5
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