THE AUCKLAND WEEKLY NEWS.
The Auckland Weekly News occupies the position of the PREMIER WEEKLY JOURNAL OF NEW ZEALAND.
Its popularity in the town and country districts of the North Island is attested by tho LARGE OIR; CULATION WHICH IT ENJOYS, while in other parts of the colony, in Australia, and tho Islands, and in America and England, it is widely known and read.
As an ADVERTISING MEDIUM it thus possesses advantages which no similar newspaper in the colony can lay claim to.
Its COUNTRY NEWS, supplied each week by a numerous staff of reliable correspondents, is complete) and impartial.
Considerable space is devoted to the PRACTICAL WORK OF THE FARM, and to all subjects relating to Agriculture. This department of the News is under tho charge of a gentleman of great experience <uid knowledge of all matters connected with the CULTIVATION OF THE SOIL, and to render tho Information given as useful as possible, the subjects treated 011 are ILLUSTRATED BY SKILFULLYEXECUTED ENGRAVINGS.
The SPORTS OF THE FIELD AND TURF are fully chronicled, and attention is devoted to the pleasant and interesting games of CHESS and DRAUGHTS.
As a FAMILY JOURNAL and GENERAL NEWSPAPER the News ranks equally high, and the greatest care is exercised to maintain the wholesome tone and character of its reading matternothing that is offensive to good taste or cherished onvietions being admitted to its columns.
It contains a WEEKLY HISTORY OF THE NEWS OF THE WORLD, and SPECIAL CONTRIBUTIONS on a wide range of subjects from the facile pens of accomplished writers.
Its SERIAL TALES are of absorbing Interest, and are contributed by some 'Of the foremost novelists of the day.
A SERMON by an eminent divine, or some wellselected SUNDAV READING, is also published each week.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 8985, 24 February 1888, Page 5
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293THE AUCKLAND WEEKLY NEWS. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 8985, 24 February 1888, Page 5
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