What Our Contemporaries Say.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 7, 25 June 1887, Page 3

What Our Contemporaries Say.

Says the Bangitikei Advocate: We have received the first number of the Gisborne Srixnian, owned and edited by Mr C. Wilson, late of the Wanganui Collegiate School. It is a very creditable addition to the ranks of journalism. With regard to onr first issue, the Wanganui Chronicle remarks: We have received the first number of the Gisborne Staxdabd, a new tri-weekly paper published for the first tune in that township on June 6. The printer and publisher is Mr Charles Wilson, whose control over the literary department also is unmistakeable. The paper is racy and readable, and should prove a success. Says the Wellington Poet : We have received the first issue of a new tri-weekly paper entitled the Gisborne Standard. The (proprietor is Mr. C. Wilson, late of Wanganui, who expresses his intention of making the paper s daily one at an early date. The policy of the paper is declared to be "Liberalism and Radicalism in the broadest and best sense of those often mis, used terms.” The paper is fairly stocked with advertisements, and, if energetically carried out as it has begun, should obtain remunerative support from the inhabitants of Poverty Bay. We wish Mr Wilson success in his new venture. Wairoa Guardian: On the whole we must say we like the tone of our new contemporary which is liberal, vigorous, and independent in its style, without being low or vulger. . We hope ♦’ a Standard, now that it has again arisen pa.oenix-like from its ashes, will be able to withstand the rude blasts of fortune, before which its predecessors had to bow; and that as it has emblazoned on its folds “ Excelsior ” it will act up to its professions, and lead in the van of the mental, moral, and material progress of the district in which it is planted. Patea Mail: We have just received the first copy of the Gisborne Standard, a paper which has sprung into existence in the town from which it takes its name. Ine paper is well-filled with acceptable reading matter of a varied and pleasant order, and wi’l no doabt rapid'y run into public favour.