THE "HAURAKI" ECLIPSED!

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7587, 5 February 1896, Page 3

THE "HAURAKI" ECLIPSED!

WAIHI TAKES A" BACK SEAT! COOLGARDIE NOWHERE!

CALEDONIAN RECORD BROKEN! 35,8-10 ounoks to the ton. Work it oat for voursulf. Indian Chief Cigarettes,_ 35,840 ounces to tho ton, and more satisfaction to tho ounce than any other brand.

Some of the leading members of the Royal Academy have been severely criticised and taken to task for selling their creations to advertising firms, and even executing 11 works of art" to the specific order of '• somebody's soap" or " General pills." Punch has recently issued a clever skit on the advertising mania introduced between paragraphs of bona tide interest, and publishes a specimen of what we may expect in tho novel of the future. There if! (says a London paper) undoubtedly a grievance 1". 1.1.0 rcspeu.. s nere is nothing more annoying, or more likely to make a man wavic to £ec up and kick himself than to commence a sub-leader on the Chitral war or the Salisbury foreign policy, anil eventually find himself literally m a lather of Seagull's Moonlight _oap. We (piite agree with this (says another exchange), and hold such a practice to be quite indefensible. There is a time and a place lor everything, and there is plenty of scope for advertising without monopolising the reading matter uf publio interest. There is only one plea of justification, and that is when an article of sterling value and indisputable quality, such aa Vanity Kaiv Cigarettes, is to bo brought and kept before the public.