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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7341, 30 May 1885, Page 1 (Supplement)

The Auckland Weekly N&ws has been established twenty-two years, and if one of the oldest and beet known weekly newspapers In the colony. It circulates not only in New Zealand, but throughout a great portion of Australia, Tasmania, and Fiji. As a aiaily and agricnlt r»l jo lrnal it is without an equal* in the colony. Among all classes of the community it poesesses a high reputation and enjoys great popularity No pains have been spared to rendei It useful to farmers and others engaged in the cultivation of the soil, or in the different rural pursuits. Competent writers each week supply Instructive articles dealing with agriculture and kindred subjects, and this important department of the News Is a full and interesting repository of information on all matters appertaining to country occupations, special attention being paid to the cultivation of sub-tropical produce. The information supplied is illustrated by admirably-executed woodcuts, which convey a clear and correct idea of the articles described, whether relating to the farm, the orchard, the apiary, or the dairy. To the settler the News ia an Indispensable vade micum. As a general newspaper it also takes high rank, (t contains * full and carefully prepared collection of iiewi of the week, English, foreign, colonial and local, entertaining letters from its con-on-pondente abroad, and specially written articles oo social subjeots by experienced and able writers It also publikb.es serial tales by some of tbe best known an i most popular authors of the day, and each week there appears in it* columns a sermon by some distinguished preacher. Its family reading matter ia of the most tnteres Ing and diveril&ed character, and is suited to all tastes. The News is in addition prorusely illustrated, the illustrations being akUfully and artistically executed." A portrait of the late Mr. Robert Graham is amongst tbe illustrations this week.