A Russian Journal.
St. Petersburg, March 16.
The most important event in Russian newspaper annals has just been celebrated in the twenty-fifth birthday of the Novoe Vremya, the leading paper, The significance of this record is shown by the fact that three-fifths of the Russian journals are less than ton years old, audit is a rare event for any paper to reach its fifteenth birthday without being suppressed by the Government. The circulation of the Novoe Vremya is only 50,000; that of the Mvefc, with the biggest circulation in Russia, is under 75,000. The Novoe Vremya was founded by Suvorin, who still’edits it, and who to-day received sixty congratulatory deputations and sheaves of telegrams from foreign newspapers, felicitating him on his unexampled achievement in keeping his newspaper alive a quarter of a century in Russia.
Three small boys attending the Blenheim Borough schools were poisoned through eating cordite. The bojs became very 01, and but for the prompt action taken by the headmaster, serious consequences would have ensued. As it • is, ■two of the youngsters are still in bed.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 98, 4 May 1901, Page 1
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