THE GISBORNE TIMES.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 60, 12 March 1901, Page 3

THE GISBORNE TIMES.

CONGRATULATIONS FROM AMERICA.

Letters of congratulation continue to reach the proprietors of the Gisborne Times from far distant places. By the last San Francisco mail a member of the firm received the following letter from an old friend, the popular ex-Gisbomeite, Mr. Arnold E. Foster:— *

“A copy of your Gisborne Times is before me as I write. Let me congratulate you on your grit in starting it. Why don’t you get out a Sunday morning edition? No doubt 90 per cent of the citizens read novels, etc., all Sunday, whereas the news of the day, together with a few judiciously selected yams, would be far less harmful, if indeed they could be considered harmful at all. No doubt there would be a mild kick at first, as a certain section of any community will kick at their own shadow, but this would serve to advertise your paper, and the kickers would find out inside of twelve months that they were, just as moral after j reading your Sunday edition as before, and a bit more broad-minded as well. You would also have the distinction of being the first daily in New Zealand to issue a Sunday edition. The Sunday issues of the [ dailies in this city have a far larger circulation than the week day editions, and no doubt the result would be the same with you as soon as the people got educated up to it. In any ease, I hope your paper will be a success, for it gives me great pleasure to see my old friends getting on in the world. lam still staying with our old friend the mining. I have graduated from the cyanide, chlorination, and assaying courses in tho Van Der Naillen Mining School in this city, and am now hard at the surveying. I have made quite a few dollars of the assaying on the side, and am working on a scheme at present promises pretty well. Must now close, again wishing the Gisborne Times a prosperous future.”