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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7614, 17 April 1886, Page 6

The Auckland Weekly News was established twenty-three years ago. and is the best known and most widely circulated weekly newspaper published in New Zealand, Its readers are to be found in all parts of the colony and Australia, and it also largely circulates in Kng'and and America. The aim of its conductors lias been to make it a high class family journal and country magazine, Its contents, therefore, are of the most diversified charaetor, and encyclopedic in their scope. They embrace a very wide range of subjects, suited to all tastes, classes, and conditions. Th« News is copiously illustrated, and its selection of colonial and foreign intelligence is extensive and Interesting, and carefully made. Its serial tales are written by the most popular novelists of the day—such world-wide celebrities in literature as WilWie Collins, William Black, Miss Braddon, and Walter Betant. The social topics of the hour are dealt with by competent writers in a bright and lively style, and each week a sermon, by one of the foremost preachers of the age, is published in exteruo, Special attention is devoted to agriculture and kindred subjects, and contributions from experienced and practical authorities on all matters connected with the Farm and Field appear weekly. The following headings indicate the miscellaneous character of its general reading :— *' For the Ladies," " Useful Household Hints," " Fashion Notes," " Children's Column," " Wit and Humour," "Poetry," "Chess and Draughts," " Literature, Music, and the Drama," " Science and Art," &c.