IN MEMORIAM.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 34, 7 August 1880, Page 2

IN MEMORIAM.

We feel assured that our numerous friends and subscribers will sympathise with us, in consequence of the action which we feel compelled to take. After an existence of four months —and after a short fight with an opponent, in which we had, apparently, all the best of it— we were of opinion that our greatest difficulties would be at an end. But just as we had solaced ourselves with this comforting reflection, a terrible thunderbolt has fallen upon us. We have been reluctantly compelled to give notice to our workmen that their services will be no longer required ; our Editor will have to go to " fresh fields and pastures new " ; and our P.D. will have to seek a more congenial occupation. Our friends — and especially those living afc Normanby — will condole with us in our affliction. The reason for the discontinuance of the Stab will be found in the following missive, which was written on a penny post-card — we presume, in order that the post office authorities might be able to see, learn, and digest the contents thereof ; but ere the last flicker of the Star is at an end, we have taken the trouble of embalming it in the columns of its final issue :—: — Normanby, Aug. 4/80. Sir, the Star is so Barren of " Parliamentary News," I am reluctantly compelled to make a change. Please " drop my paper" and send my a/c. Charles Allen. This is the second time that Mr. Charles Allen has ordered us to drop his paper. The first shock we survived, because it was accompanied by a silver shilling, the price of four copies. In a fortnight or three weeks afterwards, Mr. Charles Allen, who went out of our office like a (roaring) lion when he dropped" his paper, came back again like a lamb, and in a very mild manner asked if he could have a copy left at his residence. We declined, but as he would not go to our agent even for a pa,per, it was agreed that it should be left at a friend's place. We were much comforted, because we felt that so long as Mr. Allen's name was on our ledger, our credit would be unlimited. As he has now taken it off for the second time, we can only see visions of bankrupty and bailiffs in the distance. There is, therefore, nothing left but to discontinue the Star. Our creditors will, however, be comforted with the reflection that Mr. Charles Allen is not unwilling to pay his account. To their tender mercies we will leave its collection. To our readers we will now utter the parting word — Farewell. A very sad one it is to us. If our Normanby friends will subscribe the price of a frame for the post-card which has given the deathblow to the Star's existence, we shall hand it over to them. It ought to be handed down to posterity.